The Times - Cryptic - October 24 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1468
Clues	Answers
…long walk to reach Eastern Kinross, initially	TREK
50% healthy, not completely fine at first	HALF
A popular plant for a racecourse	AINTREE
Agreement with no power in law	ACT
Article is probing hero’s love affair	LIAISON
Church the Italian put in primary area	BASILICA
Church title recalled when including a couple of Saints and Bishop?	CHESSMAN
Concern in South Carolina over line that's frightening?	SCARECROW
Drink companies start to advertise	COCOA
Fame about now, heading for notoriety	RENOWN
Female to startle in a dress	FROCK
Fraudulent player keen to support comical character	card-sharp
Home, seeing us in garden	HOUSE
Little kindergarten’s opening in seven days	WEEK
Many shops recognised item of hardware	CHAINSAW
Pooh’s friend is about right to set off	TRIGGER
Prohibit regular extraction from brain?	BAN
Reduced order? Mine will become dilapidated	DECREPIT
Ruin part of garden when reversing? I’m expected to pay	DEBTOR
Secures new muscles	NABS
Skill, by the sound of it? Definitely not	NOHOW
Spider rain had disturbed, securing cover initially	ARACHNID
Support walk, heading off …	ARCH
Virus containing note getting illicit payment	BUNG
We swallow the bait, hogging second spot on the Net	WEBSITE
You won’t be caught napping with this	INSOMNIA
The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27490
Clues	Answers
American: his first failure is sampling endless rounds	MISSISSIPPIAN
Boxer formerly with concern to find target	clay pigeon
Burrower disturbed the marrow	EARTHWORM
Catch small badger	SNAG
Close to liquidation, fine to raid one’s capital	NAIROBI
Commissioner from China, with NCO, visiting sultanate	OMBUDSMAN
Failing that is description of Henry Van Dyke’s man?	OTHERWISE
Fish some hope to catch on the beach?	RAYS
High School cast up for a turn call theatre	BOLSHOI
Jones daughter coming out of the blue	INIGO
Maybe Rebecca’s old track — that is included in musical	west side story
Moving upfront, he goads hosts	on the go
Not exactly in the money around here	LOCALLY
Offer stick for balancing act	HANDSTAND
Plant displayed by a large green stone	ALECOST
Rude not to take home so many?	GROSS
Serenade knight after king in French palace	KENSINGTON
She puts herself out, forsaking uniform to meet the electorate?	press the flesh
Short grass skirts fashionable for a child	BAMBINO
Somehow, I want a rook like a dove	ANTIWAR
Spectators not allowed to finish show off	CROW
Staff could have this small volume, mostly untouched	c clef
Tried car home for a change, parking within sight of Paris	arc de triomphe
Tube empty when picked up	VEIN
Turn round diameter variable twice to find pi	goody-goody
Ultimately dire hole Cockney’s in, for example	EPITOME
US athlete is in the red, lapping Pole	OWENS
Warning light on beach with delta, not a place you’d want to crash	BEDCHAMBER