The Times - Cryptic - December 6 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27527
Clues	Answers
Arguments from rivals after quiet jaunt	shouting matches
Artist with tight clothing threatening swimmer	STINGRAY
Blackmail English team hosting wrong side at Lord's	EXTORTION
Brass section's top piercing note	DOSH
China, third-rate location for alpines	CROCKERY
Coarse stuff from contrary girl booked after game?	RUSSET
Composer's lightest note in rising melody	PALESTRINA
Conclude sappers like working	REASON
Cultivated bush sheltering rook perhaps?	SHRUB
Eg Clydesdale press first to show revolutionary engine	iron horse
Engineer chappie on island turned up dead	MANIPULATE
Gain worth cryptically having a fit	throwing a wobbly
Knock over empty potty; headstrong toddler may get it	nappy rash
Lash out, taking extremely lucrative journey	let rip
Last few batsmen lie, so they say	TAIL
Last of shade still protecting excessively hot canine	eye tooth
Main channel's receiver concealing coating of rust	ARTERIAL
Niche product ultimately diverted folk	ETHNIC
Not too good east of prairies for a picnic	plain sailing
On paper, maintain shortcut	time-saver
Overact badly, receiving worried member's standard warning	caveat emptor
Part of training regime on ship has youngsters boxing	press-ups
Records describing campaign returned to lounge	SPRAWL
Source of cutting gear and machinery	PLANT
Tacky individual originally in very small plainclothes unit	VISCID
Traditional requirements for roasting shrew?	SPITFIRE
Try case of larceny hesitantly	SHYLY
Unseats judge avoiding historic conflicts	OUSTS
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1499
Clues	Answers
After loose scrum, dismiss pack on one’s back	RUCKSACK
Change in entirety, for all time	ETERNITY
Criminal handlers of stolen goods keeping identification secrets	CONFIDENCES
Crush half of troy weight	TROUNCE
Former partner strongly criticises European extension	EXPANSE
Hairdresser: one supplying insults?	BARBER
Little fruit from Greek imitator	GRAPE
Location that’s superb when going back	SPOT
Moan about feeble National Trust	LAMENT
One who imitates leaders of PETA yet chooses to wear fur?	COPYCAT
Party seen to be in contravention	RAVE
Person in theatre who performs surgery using rubber and ruler	opera singer
Refuse to acknowledge sample from Golden Years	DENY
Rising volume with air conditioning that makes puss go mad?	CATNIP
Salad plant to reveal unexpectedly to big cat, first off	spring onion
Someone who writes in French, to the Thunderer?	AUTHOR
Special gift almost certainly something valuable	TREASURE
Spiteful person used to remove vetness from vindscreen?	VIPER
Sudden anxiety with satyr-like character in charge	PANIC
Tart crumbled in officers’ dining room makes a soft base	MATTRESS
Tear wrapping from éclair that’s readier to eat	RIPER
Technical word island country used for “ending”	TERMINATION
The type to put in an order	SORT
Variant of Belgian language	BENGALI