The Times - Cryptic - January 22 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solution

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1532
Clues	Answers
Admire the great man, or horsewhip viciously?	hero-worship
Children’s theatre?	PLAYHOUSE
Church employee right on the edge	VERGER
Computer player is more spirited	GAMER
Country run — nothing taken with huge enthusiasm	ROMANIA
Criminal trio elected — would have failed this test?	lie detector
Fancy wife goes with that man	WHIM
Good girl that can hold her drink	GLASS
Greeting husband, unwell	HAILING
Headgear thrown at first in mud	MITRE
Mark time, and succeed holding area	TWAIN
Might war prisoner and monarch meet?	POWER
Poster to position shortly over a road	PLACARD
Put down “Time to pay membership fee”	SUBDUE
Reproved, going after golden flower	ORCHID
Shy victim I disbelieved in part	TIMID
Small fib about some number that’s marked on the road	white line
Small room with first musician	CELLIST
Sort of red spy man shortly arrests	MAGENTA
Speaker’s fully absorbed, stuck into paper	WRAPPED
State banks are failing	NEBRASKA
Stick in part of mouth	GUM
Strongly desire extravagant praise	ASPIRE
Travel using free energy	RIDE
Turning, lecturer is to indicate agreement	NOD
Where strikers are lined up to fight after game	MATCHBOX
The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27567
Clues	Answers
Armstrong’s heard of what prayers do	KNEEL
As was Molly Brown, tanning in bleak sun	UNSINKABLE
Away side at Old Trafford	OFF
Cruisers might lie along this front, playing cards	promenade deck
Current parliament returns early work	ILIAD
Current producer withdraws a good deal in style	DYNAMO
Cut theatre for men only	STAG
Disastrously dropped litre drinks in school	COLLAPSED
Fighter once assembled eastern troops	METEOR
Fool jolly officer	DOLT
Give up introducing complex rating scale	CENTIGRADE
In place of holiday, English cleaner in criminal court!	cote dazur
In which the beast of Siberia is caught?	TAIGA
Like grass family doctor brought in, it’s negotiable	asking price
Master divisor, ignoring two quarters	dominator
Obscure country’s losing a contest finally in court	INDISTINCT
Poles in Brussels start to examine result	ENSUE
Republic disperses beatniks pursuing sawn-off gun	UZBEKISTAN
Resorts employing treatment, having nothing for drug at intervals	SPASMODICALLY
Screen producer’s turkey chasing small donkey	smoke bomb
Skirt round old temple displaying measure of power	KILOWATT
Some delightfully rich little poem	LYRIC
Stars dealing with a disease hooked by drugs	Great Bear
Still, one that’s never been authenticated	YETI
Take a look into a large juvenile compound	ALKALOID
This author’s taking in singular theory	ISM
Three views about to be one	see eye to eye
Toy with no head found in sack	RIFLE
Try nut and bolt to secure area	ENDEAVOUR
Unpleasant, and very cold, outside King’s Head	ICKY