The Times - Cryptic - November 27 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1492
Clues	Answers
Appearance of people informally mentioned	GUISE
Cloth is wonderful: sumptuous, almost	FABRIC
Companion ordering sec to Asia	ASSOCIATE
Cook for example is an officer	CAPTAIN
Delightful person who works with snakes?	CHARMER
Determined soldier must support a parent	ADAMANT
Disaster round hospital, a spectator devastated	CATASTROPHE
European champion who is clearing out his house?	EVICTOR
Final move is to examine partner	CHECKMATE
Gesture from breaker	WAVE
Get together in a service	AMASS
Helping to prune opening of formal speech	RATION
Miniature version of ancient city, omitting river	TOY
Not accept rubbish	REFUSE
Old kingdom of Crimea devastated	MERCIA
One could be Yellow, Red or Black, but conventionally blue	SEA
Part of Europe that’s a jewel?	emerald isle
Penalties extremely severe for bridge manoeuvre	FINESSE
Prohibit part of garden? Yes	DENY
Prospect of travel document consuming time	VISTA
River delta where peas grow	POD
Sickly-looking magician’s prop incomplete	WAN
Teach artist to open some paint?	TRAIN
To purify church, is inclined to enter	CLEANSE
Unavoidable day matron goes mad	MANDATORY
Where greedy children save?	piggy bank
The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27519
Clues	Answers
A house and a car for one turning heads	GEMINI
Born bully?	TAUREAN
Chap getting publicity free, still concentrating on features?	HEADSHOT
City brothels in kinky shows	HELSINKI
City just to the west of delta in ricefields	LIMA
Commander leading a team reaching peak in S America	COTOPAXI
Dickensian orphan Twist in desperate reversal, having no one	edwin drood
Exotic bit of verse could go oddly astray	ESCUDO
Expend least effort, as chiropodists do without hesitation	cut corners
Fungus, note, will, finally, before the day’s up	MILDEW
Gather friar eats in school	TUCK
Gridlocked, perhaps, in transport leaving city	STATIC
Insults mate with false respect	lip service
Legendary red ointment for child that’s really dear	CHERUB
March features one short horse with bullock following?	EQUINOX
My part reduced after reflecting	LOR
One’s accompanying the Queen visiting military hospital and mess	MISHMASH
Pants one would be expecting to be up!	DUFF
Put out, I carp	KOI
Readily accept doctor, popular with family	drink in
Seeks zoom lens to snap area imposing restrictions	smokeless zone
Something digital newspaper makes undesirable	TOERAG
These usen’t to get worked up about harmful emission?	econuts
Thursday broadcast’s before 9	STREWTH
To get around scale, after old-fashioned drill	square-bashing
Vegetable to go after in place of game	squash court
Very close, offering affection	hand in glove
What male dinosaurs could make you?	misandrous
Work for a while that doctor may take, briefly	TEMP
Wrong start, therefore ignoring that	OFFENCE