The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27123 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27123 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
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

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