The Times - Cryptic - August 29 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27129
Clues	Answers
Accommodating chaps after a black filling beer	AMENABLE
Action regularly taken by one who’s near spray	ATOMISER
Beginning to build a foundation for sandstone church	BASILICA
Book upset many in House of Lords	HYMNAL
Contrived return of French artist __ about time	STAGED
Cross and unwilling to follow the rules initially	TRAVERSE
Everything I wanted in social flirting	DALLIANCE
Female soldier dressed in recycled old and new gear	GEORGINA
Gesture to attract attention of runner in the countryside	BECK
Great European pretentiousness	GRANDEUR
Hearing daughter’s embraced by rugby player __ sweet	pear drop
I’m cutting good drug to be worthless	GIMCRACK
In reality a missile at end of life mostly has bad performance	as a matter of fact
Jane Austen’s city quote brought up to ludicrous effect	BATHETIC
Learned custom abandoned by university	SAGE
Leave to investigate the point of paying	CHECKOUT
Memorial is not cheap, unfortunately	CENOTAPH
Our class is left for minutes in West End musical	MAMMALIA
Pretender’s action following ruling to abolish king	FEIGNING
Ravel star abandons the piano	ENTANGLE
Resistance over chap cutting wages as penny-pinching	PARSIMONY
Run back inside tent for food	YOGURT
Start to remark when tons missed church	COMMENCE
Vain person? Love is my middle name	PEACOCK
Very good compass and ruler	SPANKING
Very unpleasant pub reported for someone on the fiddle	VIOLIN
Walked about round south-eastern part of England	DORSET
What ancient humans used carving up the lion?	NEOLITH
Working on care for muscle attachment	TENDON
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1167
Clues	Answers
A-lister seen principally in Margate, surprisingly	MEGASTAR
Absolutely having to match	TOTALLY
Appear so excited about old TV show	soap opera
Choose something a miner would select?	PICK
Cook welcoming a fight	FRAY
Costlier renovation for monastery, say?	CLOISTER
Country also in a muddle	LAOS
Dance venue clearer, everyone going in	BALLROOM
Goalkeeper's cap in red for game	RUGBY
God hurt back	EROS
Greedy type has quite a few, hosting a New Year celebration	HOGMANAY
Huge supply initially put in tank	VAST
Impressive hitting	STRIKING
Loaf that's made in error?	BLOOMER
Ludicrously complex Briton, he has moved on	heath robinson
Pass Christian symbol	CROSS
Person checking donkeys, tailless kind	ASSESSOR
Requiring change, stand up for rubbish collector	DUSTPAN
Run a bit	DASH
Scottish town into Sunday racing	AYR
Second top, say	SPEAK
Stop emptying a bath	SPA
Stop idiot necking incorrect dose	close down
Study group remains disrupted	SEMINAR
Surrey town in memo spelt the wrong way	EPSOM