The Times - Cryptic - February 12 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27585
Clues	Answers
Animal bound to go after some chips	ANTELOPE
Answer recognised when heard again	ANEW
Appropriate opening of zoo with Mr Durrell, a writer	FITZGERALD
At least a dozen deliveries, stolen or missed	OVERSHOT
Beam that’s almost three feet round	RAY
Bird like this turned up by quarry	OSPREY
Board amidships with this?	OAR
Caterpillar turning an age to undergo rapid development	BURGEON
Charlie and I get a rest arranged __ we’re puffed!	CIGARETTES
Comparatively mean returns in restructured insurance	SNIDER
Coppers accepting an act of contrition	PENANCE
Current fashion?	Power dressing
Dye covering half of hair in helmet	tin hat
European city is area under pressure	PISA
Female rider that jockeys avidly goad	lady godiva
Fishy character suppressing yen to attempt scam	try it on
Grounded because of dodgy heart	down-to-earth
Have problems navigating on your bike!	get lost
High flyer?	HUMMINGBIRD
Informal jumper: knitter’s first piece	ROOK
Noble, like the News at Ten broadcast?	KNIGHTLY
Partial duplication of travel document is concerning	vis-a-vis
Police assistant has possible cold case to pursue	sniffer dog
Poorly made glove has split down the middle	go halves
Pseudoscientific movement to interpolate blunders	teleportation
Purposeless commercial break	ADRIFT
This person talks a long time: flipping endlessly	GASBAG
Unusual urge to put iron back inside safe place	REFUGE
Winter figure, small currently, lots having been cut	SNOWMAN
You will quaintly call out	YELL
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1547
Clues	Answers
A teacher receiving US vocalist in Oxon town	ABINGDON
Asian joke involving a retired nurse once	JAPANESE
Cap soldiers had at Kitchener’s offensive, initially?	SHAKO
Clumsy writer held up by computer technology	INEPT
Company absorbing revolutionary statement of belief	CREDO
Disadvantage the Spanish suffered originally	LOSS
Drunk beginning to braise game	BLOTTO
Happen to arrive at route through mountains	come to pass
Instrument of torture little Tom’s gang used	THUMBSCREW
Labrador, say, starts to gobble grub outside peacekeepers’ party?	GUNDOG
Loyalty for example accepted by coalition	ALLEGIANCE
Man turned up, crossing a defensive ditch	MOAT
Mean woman in bad temper, blowing top?	AVERAGE
Mischievous like Charlie, disrupting mass meeting	RASCALLY
Ornamental bobble a couple of dogs required	POMPOM
Playground amenity was set up by diocese	SEESAW
Predatory mammal some go on about?	MONGOOSE
Skill of old wife employed in section of media	PROWESS
Some of them market a 19th-century novel	EMMA
Take a dekko __ and see all right	LOOK
Texture of fabric you and I have spoken of	WEAVE
Tone down a painting technique	TEMPERA
Unusually hot steam starts to ruin this temperature regulator	THERMOSTAT
Worked in garden before private dance	HOEDOWN