The Times - Cryptic - February 11 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27584
Clues	Answers
A call for assistance carrying cream building material	ASBESTOS
A new house featured in the writer's story	IVANHOE
Clergyman's soft with that lady in Slough	SHEPHERD
Creed, given converts, shows difference	DIVERGENCE
Designer label in hat on the left is to amuse	tickle pink
Encouraging and cheerful, fond of play pens	SUPPORTIVE
Endlessly awkward old man responsible for stock	GAUCHO
Gaunt eccentric eating nothing sweet	NOUGAT
Good name kept by parliament led by person with honour	OBEDIENT
Hartley novel concerned with human life	EARTHLY
Head turned by US neighbour's cheerfulness	BONHOMIE
Hoot catching a youngster dressing	salad cream
Huge creature that's hunted bird	OSPREY
It might be spotty young fellow's character	bloodstone
No longer owns hotel east of Panama?	HATH
Notice protective garment for expert	ADVISOR
Off to obtain one's hot rum	OUTLANDISH
One with no heart playing Macbeth for example	ANTIHERO
Playing a specific melody live	on the air
Profane sentence newspaperman holds up	DEFILE
Reserve number one of eleven for clerk?	BOOKKEEPER
Rock and roll dance	REEL
Something ventured climbing a peak	ETNA
Son runs off and goes fast	SPRINTS
Tested chopper on the rise, likely to explode?	EXAMINED
Understand way of presenting information is within reach	GETTABLE
Wail when displacing back joint	KNEE
Weakling needs hard, difficult practice	run-through
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1546
Clues	Answers
A meeting place in Broad Street	AVENUE
A reduction on top is clearly superior	a cut above
Characteristic of a m-mark of respect	ATTRIBUTE
Child receiving a second slice for breakfast?	TOAST
Company, they say, that is part of network	TWO
Dress that’s loose at the back placed in metal container	CAFTAN
Fielder’s success, perhaps, an unexpected difficulty	CATCH
Good to enter royal house? It can be a headache	HANGOVER
Like taking ends off	AKIN
Loaf, key element	COBALT
Man alone at the bottom in ravine	GEORGE
Mark on computer screen has one swearing aloud	CURSOR
Newt left as lake vanishes	EFT
One beaten to motorway more than once	tom-tom
One given discretion to let spy out of prison	free agent
Pet in front of a barrier heard to yowl	CATERWAUL
Revellers’ options just before November	trick or treat
Scottish youngster’s brain a little affected	BAIRN
Sign of sainthood? Henry has nothing	HALO
Silver family of piglets, all shiny	AGLITTER
Slash more antiquated energy store	GASHOLDER
That man in drink gets discharge	RHEUM
Two A-levels I’d failed? A fanciful story	old wives tale
Unusual relatives with many skills	VERSATILE