The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27123 August 22 2018
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: ANCESTOR, CHROMATIC, DEPEND, GODLESS, HM, LUMBER, RECESS, STRONGROOM.
The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27123 | |
Clues | Answers |
About to introduce tax break | RECESS |
Alcoholic in the end put back to bed | COT |
Brie munched by me in galley | BIREME |
Cereal stirred below temperature becoming syrup | TREACLE |
Charge bundle to keep bird on ground | WARHEAD |
Clear river containing single rodent | EXONERATE |
Cricket side’s method hardly secret? | on show |
Crook to entertain sister’s subordinate | staff nurse |
Current in which HM ships lost way | MODE |
Fake groom died, having introduced tango | PRETEND |
Famed Assyrian house is home to sheep | SEMIRAMIS |
Feline woman binding husband in chains | CHATELAINE |
Forebear requires an exotic escort | ANCESTOR |
Fundamental article about the Italian church | BASILICA |
Lock phone on rental contract | RINGLET |
One charming Chinese detective in lodge | ENCHANTER |
One supporting cuts met with knight | SAWHORSE |
Pen pusher, perhaps, bursting into tears | STATIONER |
Pressure in tie — United beaten for lack of fitness? | INEPTITUDE |
Process of reduction in capital growth | HAIRCUT |
Ready to assimilate City formula | RECIPE |
Right-hand man keeping to hyperbole | RHETORIC |
Small deposit to finish in bank | DEPEND |
Stylish welcome received in clubs twice | CHIC |
Testing time for one at crease, one performing | PROBATION |
Tough Berber reflective in secure place | STRONGROOM |
Tradesman, powerless to deliver cut wood | LUMBER |
Unprincipled little man enters gallery | GODLESS |
Using colour, 20 to dress person travelling on time | CHROMATIC |
Wreck in sea on moon finally eclipsed | MAR |