The Times - Cryptic -December 20 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27539
Clues	Answers
Artist of very fashionable merit	HEPWORTH
Biologist’s need to include sheep that’s brought back	LAMARCK
Book unknown during long period of history	EZRA
Boring group made to assemble at home	flat-pack
Calmly put new pen in carrier	TRANQUILLY
Cat spoiled with bream and seafood	CRABMEAT
Charlie’s married after single mistake	SOLECISM
Chill excessively, remaining calm	overcool
Complain when Poe’s end’s lost literary raven	GRIP
Current PM returned agreement for freedom	IMPUNITY
Downfall of party over ending of Thatcherism	DOOM
Faust Brian put together without leading notes, like Berg?	AUSTRIAN
Female in metallic fabric, but not good for ex?	old flame
Gun with zero plastic	HOWITZER
Lie with gusto outrageously? One might	EULOGIST
One unhappy to be kept inside light fence	PALISADE
Parrot sprang completely upwards	ROSELLA
Picked up uniform getting highly promoted?	UPRAISED
Quiet increasingly embarrassed evidence destroyer?	SHREDDER
Some crocodiles over in pool	LIDO
Son gets upset belly with fruit when it’s past its best?	sell-by date
Superficially misleading issue cop sorted out	SPECIOUS
Supposed bird’s denying exclamation after hours in Poe	PHOENIX
The Three Broomsticks pub in Hertfordshire town	potters bar
Trade in obsolete coins?	EXCHANGE
University representative broadcast in sound	UNIMPAIRED
What helps one work out the tongue-tied Bronte?	DUMBBELL
What will encourage change for litmus? Iodine	STIMULI
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1509
Clues	Answers
Adopt American English	USE
Alert, looking to pass or shoot?	on the ball
Card game __ suddenly lose it?	SNAP
Character breaking tea urn	NATURE
Complain when love concealed by relative	GROAN
Evidence of flight building up to arrival	vapour trail
Glass, one rolling over and over	TUMBLER
Hand raised? Stop trying!	give up
Horse briefly on mark	COLON
Leave a coat	PARKA
One roaming in path like a big cat	LEONINE
Preserve hot water?	JAM
Raise flag	JACK
Range of colours allowed in meat spread	PALETTE
Region around northern amphitheatre	ARENA
Religious body, one separating two vessels	VATICAN
Restriction has Labour leader in party despondent	CLAMPDOWN
Restyle complex shortly	TERSELY
Rogue is mighty puckish, originally	IMP
Shoot from the air, moving faster	STRAFE
Some regular gent, in essence, from South America	ARGENTINE
Staff repel son fraudulently claiming compensation, finally	PERSONNEL
Swell chaps ending in debt after a month	AUGMENT
Talk, and sink back	GAS
Wave goes over fish: one runs on foot	roller skate
Young lover, little doll?	TOYBOY