The Times - Cryptic - January 14 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solution

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27560
Clues	Answers
Acclaim, losing no time	HOUR
Bar manager from sounding out popular goalie	INNKEEPER
Bird that hurts gerbil’s tail	OWL
Call back about fire in the sky	EMPYREAN
City and Italian city-dweller about to appear in US city? Magic	NECROMANCY
Contract excluding wife’s tax	DRAIN
Cultured person losing head	ARTY
Decorator’s accessory: staff retaining piece to copy	masking tape
Difficult enough after losing answer in guide	COMPLEX
Disapprobation over simple-minded besieging University	ODIUM
European city that never sleeps? Not quite	NAPLES
GP, say, keeping various items around the house	DOMESTIC
Great to keep remaining Northern soldiers in control	GOVERNMENT
High-minded headmaster dismissing a limited version of education?	PRINCIPLED
Horse covering miles in search	COMB
In time to keep river out of public view	in camera
Individual going East	ONE
Motor-racing company accepting a second disaster	FIASCO
New expedition from east of London to secure Kentish garden centre?	NURSERY
One with particular interest in offering ready supply	MONEYLENDER
Opening for Surrey, vital to get on this?	SCOREBOARD
Promoter of diet, say, in the forefront	VEGAN
Radio announcement’s to recognise a worry: coastal fog	Sea fret
Recalled best mark	SPOT
Singer, very good, keeping musical work organised	SOPRANO
Theater, the last word in comfort originally, heading west	CINEMA
Think back regarding main road south into French city	REMINISCE
Time with former lovers consuming Frenchman’s cuisine	tex-mex
Unconscious in fight, getting head struck	OUT
Uncontrollable oil gush — hot and revolting	GHOULISH
Useless writer is shown up in it	INEPT
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1526
Clues	Answers
A change of insides — ref is on top of it	REFIT
Avoiding alcohol, having gone without can	ABSTINENT
Bad to rent — bad	ROTTEN
Caedmon’s central character in Old English verse	ODE
Clear I’d got wrapped up in incident	EVIDENT
Fantastic being regularly well-off	ELF
Flower spread gets trophy	BUTTERCUP
Friend in the US, one not yet out	BUD
Get into American’s heart, not cold	ENTER
Hasty and careless entry for cup goes adrift	PERFUNCTORY
Important for pit not to be empty	PROMINENT
Meat for haggis, perhaps no longer fresh — a pound	OFFAL
Note lithe mountaineer	CLIMBER
Officiate live, following pressure	PRESIDE
Popular commercial with gent missing good chance?	INADVERTENT
Professional baritone upset one being tried out	PROBATIONER
Require time during unusual dissection of alien	ENTAIL
Sons press for big increase	SURGE
Subject to go for mostly	TOPIC
Take another look at American’s 100% overpayment	double-check
The woman Basil cut short?	HER
Twisting in roots is unusual	TORSION
What’s in tea tent — to be this?	EATEN
Who works on toes held by footballer in agony	BALLERINA