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 |