The Times - Cryptic - February 5 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solution

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27579
Clues	Answers
Alumnus, boring perhaps, certainly not square	OBLONG
Athena, as concealed in shadow	PALL
Bad experience the end for Edward the Confessor?	DOWNER
Bear cat in bag 4’s opening	STOMACH
Betrayal Tristan’s principal motivation	TREASON
Cast made moral sentiment the focus here?	MELODRAMA
Complex libel cases for example clear enough?	LEGIBLE
Cover design with male bird, put back for book	NEHEMIAH
Dance crew walk unsteadily after a few	Eightsome reel
Danish canapés potentially causing discomfort	aches and pains
English setter say barking in comfortable situation	easy street
Founder of sect keeping room for one of different faith	MORMON
Idealistic reformer best protected by posh Scotsman	UTOPIAN
Italian river joins lake with country	POLAND
Keen on extremely loathsome diatribe? Evidently not?	INTOLERANT
Light that warns companion leaving compartment	AMBER
Likely to see red snake in fancy	WASPISH
More than one fell in love with men in the script	MOORS
Mr Smetana rearranged lines we once made up	men-at-arms
Not caught, pawnbroker remains free	UNLEASH
Occasionally behind peers: feel down about this?	EIDER
One learned all about northern explorer	MAGELLAN
One Murdoch hails originally from Dublin?	IRISH
Only bitch barks in this breed?	MALEMUTE
Person embracing books succeeded venomous crawler	HUNTSMAN
Petite flyer no man in Royal Navy	WREN
Soul-stirring volume returned by learner on Scottish island	EMOTIONAL
Tusked beast smuggled back with prince	NARWHAL
What about plan received by sensitive signalling system?	SEMAPHORE
Wine endlessly consumed in unspoilt meadow	PASTURE
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1542
Clues	Answers
Appealing page out ahead	PLEADING
Be in favour of energy worker coming early	BEFOREHAND
Consider late bride running before end of service	DELIBERATE
Deep state starts to control our major authorities	COMA
Europe’s after good currency for impressiveness	GRANDEUR
Fiddle mixing oil into French wine	VIOLIN
Financial inducement on a small house	BUNGALOW
French cheese that is taken by British	BRIE
Guardian’s charge raised finally after conflict	WARD
Hang around after pub room’s backed Wild West fighter	GUNSLINGER
Label English item of furniture as attractive to buyers	MARKETABLE
Male bird is half Australian parrot	COCK
No Royal Marine has to join forces as a rule	NORMALLY
Not kingly, not good, not genuine	UNREAL
Overturned cooking vessels break	SNAP
Revenue in company made without publicity	INCOME
Rodent, one being supported by allotment	RATION
Rubbish a politician’s spinning	ROTATORY
Salad plant is stuffed with it for speed	CELERITY
Search me, roughly, for woollen material	CASHMERE
Small beer in exchange for money	SALE
Some badly retuned instrument	LYRE
Vegetable regularly alleged to have potassium	LEEK
Whip up green tea in the mixer?	GENERATE