The Times - Cryptic - May 28 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1100
Clues	Answers
A sign of treasure on island in Irish sea? One assumes it is true	AXIOM
Aim to finish	END
Coarse person, unknown character becoming top	APEX
Copied it — made it in different format	IMITATED
Cut tax — easy? Not entirely	AXE
Demanding old lover on island wanting man	EXIGENT
Dishonest competitor caught ahead of race	CHEAT
End of line attached to equipment that can fly	KITE
Garden — it is made awkward by this slope	GRADIENT
Goal slammed into net, in at the very start	INTENTION
Hold up one troublemaker needing to meet PM shortly	IMPEDE
Irish poetry needing no introduction	ERSE
Like the most delicious tea maybe — ice tea Mrs prepared?	CREAMIEST
Maiden, well-favoured, wanting kiss — seductive lady	MINX
Maybe fly home with group of believers	INSECT
One male leading holy warriors	IMPI
Outlaw formerly spotted on French island	EXILE
People complaining — some ran off	MOANERS
Persuasive types, awfully coarse, cross inside	COAXERS
Pointer in last pages of book?	INDEX
Political approach offering new maxims about end of war	MARXISM
Reclusive types as before, little people	EREMITES
Sailor gets with it, drunken chum, rather unreasonable	a bit much
Settings in which prisoner is given things to read	CONTEXTS
Speaker in the first half is fellow showing charm	TALISMAN
Test in English before ten in the morning	EXAM
The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27049
Clues	Answers
Academic stumbled over words at the outset	FELLOW
Advertise cut of steak in Tweets regularly	TRUMPET
Artist briefly pens label for pictures	MONTAGE
Assume worker will swallow yellow linctus	EXPECTORANT
Bank introducing easy loans from the outset? Nonsense	DOGGEREL
Beach souvenir girl left, eaten by marine creature	sea shell
Beyond bend German river turns, skirting northern region that's unknown?	pastures new
Boat that's unwieldy however capsizes	TUB
Brave chap guarding borders of Thebes	GUTSY
Christian group having variable influence	SAY
Cook first portions of beef rib with alternative to lard?	BROIL
Definitely a period of nine months?	YEA
Displaying top-quality jewellery item	AIRING
Face punishment, omitting initial on census	COUNTENANCE
Finish series of festivities, principally	round off
Francophile presumably mentioned plant growth	Gallnut
Hardly our French friend	not really
Here's what I think about former style of painting	IMPASTO
Large antelope chasing mammal over plateau	TABLELAND
Look carefully at what makes a typical Tory?	CONTEMPLATE
Met doctor on train	ran into
Not many are inclined to shelter on coast	FREEWHEEL
Portion of feta's typically pleasing to the palate	TASTY
Promiscuous woman rebuffed by theatre luvvies?	SLAPPER
Provide drink before journey regularly	SUPPLY
Series of books kept by coppers showing future promise?	POTENCE
Street urchin playin' for money	GAMIN
Trains do crash in part of arch	INTRADOS
Tussle fixing plug? Tool needed	BRADAWL
Unqualified, one abandons English course	ENTREE
Upper-class female in pin-up	GEL
Wincing a bit during lively dance	FLINCHING