The Times - Cryptic - December 12 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27532
Clues	Answers
A companion to Don Giovanni, I felt, caught me out	The Magic Flute
Article on musical cat pronounced heavenly	ANGELICAL
Chair here obstacle an ignorant lad’s damaged	grand national
Chief nobleman and a number of his staff?	HEADCOUNT
Corrupt characters from USA, East Bengal, that Labour cleaned out	augean stables
Foreign character shortly put name to parent	SIGMA
Getting entangled in church service good for son	MATTING
Given message to stay away from edges with light	EMAILED
Grains turned up for breakfast, for a limited period	egg timer
Islanders caught by embargo America maintains	CUBANS
Magistrate’s about to arrest a ruler of the waves	sea god
Most determined to make uniform, then relax	DOUREST
Moving unsteadily, part of body initially being secured in strap	STUMBLING
Opening of tale genuine and touching	TACTUAL
Overarching panel plans red revolt	SPANDREL
Parvenu’s new business the wrong way round	UPSTART
Penniless, proper not to start clinging	skin-tight
Poem in French is popular, widening appeal	SESTINA
Recent discovery of chap’s piano piece netting two grand	higgs particle
Shoddy stuff, breaking eggs to make revolution	ROTATE
Sound investment may be shown in court	GUILT
Striking reason to eat off one’s knees?	NOTABLE
Takes part in tournament, with lowest score placed last? Exactly	just so
Tale of woe from Fisher never-ending, I notice	JEREMIAD
Timid person I click with?	MOUSE
Transport losing time in monsoon	RAINS
Traveller ate wrongly — did it again	REPEATED
Weary and greasy, I assume ship has to leave	FATIGUE
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1503
Clues	Answers
Bizarre name associated with a solitary flower	ANEMONE
Book difficult to endorse	HARDBACK
Choose isolated area for a dip	PICKPOCKET
Excuse made by average teacher at university	PARDON
Expected of the French and English	DUE
Glass container depicted by artist in eating place	CARAFE
Instruct bishop to leave frontier	ORDER
Large insect runs inside on the ground	HORNET
Outdo mate, upshot uncertain	put to shame
Owl, dropping wings, lands in chestnut tree	ROWAN
Popular, a New York fixture, whatever happens	in any event
Procession Democrat organised round Ohio's capital	MOTORCADE
Put round a large and splendid house	PALACE
Reportedly knocked down, being imperfect	FLAWED
Singer from Crete? No, Rhodes	TENOR
Sleep in ski pants	KIP
Spare bit player	EXTRA
Stick, almost all, in tin	CAN
The head left out clodhopper	OAF
The type of hat that can be eaten!	pork pie
Uninhibited person, generous soul	free spirit
Unusual trial involving universal custom	RITUAL
Venomous snake count discovered in steam engine	puff adder
Worry about ring, antique, as predicted	FORETOLD