The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27129 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27129 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
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

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