The Times - Cryptic - December 16 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27535
Clues	Answers
After battle, Napoleon evacuated a part of Austria	VIENNA
Battle had around American, 50, in posh hotel	AUSTERLITZ
Bloomer I committed originally in city of star-crossed lovers	VERONICA
Branch to yield to auditors	BOUGH
Card player’s score put out?	PIQUE
Celebrated day school being over	NOTED
Corruption of niece’s MP, for example	SPECIMEN
Current age of US lawman given in play	TODAY
Did spring article in Paris: fitting!	LEAPT
Excellent advice to papa	TIPTOP
Fine-tune variable way of working on holiday	HONEYMOON
Grasp a fighting European by the head	AWARENESS
I’m sharp, but would I ever make a fast bowler?	HATPIN
Initially has sort of connection with railway’s sound management	HUSBANDRY
June’s last tango: it hit her badly	THIRTIETH
Like the Dutch, prudently changing shillings to francs	WIFELY
Lover once wholly transfixed by island of great beauty	EXQUISITE
Marry supporter of international organisation?	UNITE
No place for Scott or Janis to wed	JOIN
People’s food likes oddly exposed	FOLKS
Port contributing to high-risk obesity	KOBE
Prime journal, not the first treatise on animals	BESTIARY
Quality of fine champers, maybe, or Pilsener, as drunk	PEARLINESS
Quickly, singer grabs large wader	ALLEGRETTO
Request one’s placed between wife and husband	WISH
Row concerning whose turn it is to catch up	TIER
Sampled bottles without means, at first, such as schooners?	two-masted
Scavenger has briefly to contain hunger	HYENA
Six huge guards left keeping watch	VIGILANT
Sudden vivid memory of, say, Gordon Champion	FLASHBACK
Survivor of The Archers broadcast absent as ISIHAC’s beginning	SEBASTIAN
Those who investigate report of tavern ghosts?	INSPECTORS
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1505
Clues	Answers
A curtain said to be useful	AVAIL
About to tuck into reddish-brown biscuit	MACAROON
Assessments of sailors?	RATINGS
Bung in favourable publicity	PLUG
Caught by tree branch, making this?	CLIMB
Cruel and senseless to inhibit what bees do	INHUMANE
Current man on board	DRAUGHT
For audience, bring in vessel	URN
Goons hail different ruffians	HOOLIGANS
Hang on here: this is part of a circus act	TRAPEZE
Hanging around, putting in zero housework	HOOVERING
In NASA lab, a mad state	ALABAMA
Incantation provides chap with raised skill	MANTRA
Island’s importance, short of energy	WIGHT
Maybe egoists changing gradually	as time goes by
Not an intelligent sort of angle?	OBTUSE
On the front, extremely large, mature tree	ELM
Piece of information union contributed to barrier	DATUM
Principal gateway perhaps	ARCH
Sudden noise? Exactly	BANG
To ravage always wrong, note	lay waste
Tough joint of meat for refuge, by the way	hard shoulder
Wide outbreak of pied mice disrupted	EPIDEMIC
WW2 leader’s some competitor!	TITO