The Times - Cryptic - October 7 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27475
Clues	Answers
A snowdrop?	AVALANCHE
Boss tells a whopper about son’s latest pieces of news	HEADLINES
Brussels upset after Brexiters’ final charge	SUE
Career crazily with son, guzzling new wine	SANCERRE
Continuation of American’s truly gripping novel	RENEWAL
Do wrong in Jersey on vacation, procuring pot	JERRY
Feeble toff somehow led Cornish news	chinless wonder
Founder lacking sparkle after trip	fall flat
Geese flying east into cover	SKEIN
Group of shadowy figures holding church back	SPECIES
House on square? Let’s get it!	tally-ho
How one might face grandmaster or general?	across the board
In speech I nag, unfeeling	ice-cold
Independently working on European broadcast	on ones own
Loot needs shifting: all eyes are on it	LODESTONE
Martha occasionally accompanying American in pub, if necessary	at a push
One crying out from back of court	line judge
Peasant’s husband seized by large force one heading west	CHURL
Prime minister cutting Her Majesty’s hair	THATCH
Put down a cow?	LOWER
Reminisced about Bolshevik holding English rally	RECOLLECTED
Saw nurses at work __ so gifted!	DONATED
Senior man joining up after wife departs	ELDER
Some reactionary tweets I’m deranged, anger clouding judgement	red mist
Stops head resigning and relaxes	EASES
Striking, moving fast after change of leader	WALLOPING
Tousled beauty had fun going topless	DISHEVELLED
Try to win women’s love on more than one occasion	WOO
Unaffectionate father I like to send up	FRIGID
Yank grabbing Conservative fellow’s mistress?	TEACHER
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1455
Clues	Answers
A time in location that’s calm	PLACATE
Beam about new story	YARN
Bishop with fewer to consecrate	BLESS
Credit us with cooking raw fruit & veg	CRUDITES
Daughter on break to travel aimlessly	DRIFT
Edible shellfish in middle of seabed singly	ABALONE
Express disapproval over Romeo teacher	TUTOR
Express sadness over onset of tunnel vision	SIGHT
Gasp about restraint for one being treated	PATIENT
Get sidetracked __ I note during shift?	DIGRESS
Give money back to travelling salesman, certainly	REPAY
Hurtful remark from pub bore, initially	BARB
Idiot sues bizarrely, promoting disorder	SEDITIOUS
Join university with term half gone	UNITE
Knock back beer fit for a monarch	REGAL
Large open boat is not so dark	LIGHTER
Left, for instance, to finish traditional tale	LEGEND
Message sent from holiday job by Joker, perhaps	POSTCARD
Openly gay youth stripped	OUT
Scene of conflict sees site of historic abbey reduced to dust	BATTLEGROUND
Setter, perhaps, is good after party	DOG
Shortly getting in a large car	SALOON
Show indifference to lamb joint from yesterday?	cold-shoulder
Soul-rap rocks? Dire	PARLOUS
Very fast unexpected attack grabbing power	RAPID
What can control large tour going round?	REGULATOR