The Times - Cryptic - August 22 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

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
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1162
Clues	Answers
Bag perfect to hold shilling	PURSE
Child I locked in shed	BAIRN
Does he take a couple of books in religious class?	RABBI
Estuary commonly brown	UMBER
Girl horrid about brother? Possible to be separated	DIVISIBLE
Hardy: the word one associates with this tree	LAUREL
Heritage organisation that has everyone’s confidence?	national trust
In refitted house, angelic piece of furniture	chaise longue
In two places? Sporadically	here and there
Insect repelled girl, one feels	ANTENNA
Interior of Roman villa that goes under the hammer	ANVIL
Mistake to give away pounds for small drink	SIP
Offer I had received to be head of the board	PRESIDENT
Purple and gold mountain in east	AUBERGINE
Relax and tell a story	LIE
Reproduction of 'Magpie sitting' is exact copy	spitting image
Rescue first piece of valuable silver put into auction	SALVAGE
Round area lug a measure of gold	CARAT
Sailor is in mountain lake briefly	TAR
Separate name for river	SEVERN
Sort of surgery not found in town centre?	BYPASS
Story about baron meeting king for tricky task	tall order
Tending to reproduce a libel	LIABLE
While speaking, bring in vase	URN