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The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,283 – Aug 22 2017

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As is traditional, provides instrumentsSISTRA
Badly coiffured politician flipped two days in — bodyguard screenedODDJOB
Cross after very cunning set-up — language!TRAVERSE
Eager to go after group of artistsRARING
End up gutted, after ‘pretend’ gangster got offALIGHTED
Epithet ‘whale’ also fitted subject of this enquiry (3,3,3,3,4)WHOATE
Figure childishly drawn — staff supporting criticismSTICKMAN
Food’s left in a different place, causing complaintsAILMENTS
Girl is turning over to get brownSIENNA
Good — well-developed and sensibleGROUNDED
Hard-hitting article ignored by 4PUNCHY
Idiot! Lad I’m with is not all thereDIMWIT
Immodest acts online had to lead to tearsEGOTRIPS
Intuitive knowledge upset number one sonGNOSIS
Isn’t a fashion having ringmaster in Dolce & Gabbana?ITALIANS
Make a speech about British — some of the French hard to persuadeOBDURATE
Neither partner’s masculine — largely typicalNORMAL
Old pile condemned — at first they live inside like pigsPOTBELLIED
On return, look round house for snacksNACHOS
Order a wife from the east — here’s the moneyWALLET
Prepared to do business, spoke more freelyOPENEDUP
Schoolboy boxing southern EuropeanESTONIAN
See 12ALLTHEPIES
Somebody’s about, it’s horrible — stop it!ENOUGH
Stagger out of university, sort ofASTONISH
Tarts here — naughty peer’s not against a visitPATISSERIE
Unhappy naked? Is it time you went on it?ATKINSDIET
Working girl cycling round picks up current loverLOTHARIO

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,281 – Aug 20 2017

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A steed in not very frisky formSEDATE
Become established down under?TAKEROOT
Being old, agreed about being droppedAGED
Blunt criticism from decent chap to strikerBRICKBAT
Capers used to make pickleSCRAPE
Declares in a way they are from a chilly areaICELANDERS
Fleet is quiet in attackRAPID
Give out overtimeEMIT
In one class where everything is the sameUNIFORMITY
In trouble, daughter is told what she must doDISORDERED
Island producing copper and bariumCUBA
It may provide accompaniment to Pinafore productionPIANOFORTE
Lease included in legal document removedDELETED
Make a touching gesture as evidence of a person’s entitlementDUB
Man on the make?CREATOR
Massachusetts’ murderer brought back, a deranged personMANIAC
More mature fruits used to make wineelderberries
Nevertheless, is not to be satisfied with just partAFTERALL
Perhaps a brave father put up with painAPACHE
Policemen examine where the horses are keptCONSTABLES
Posted under protective coverMAILED
The hand is in the footFIST
The number that was offered initiallyTWO
They strengthen walls but locks are also neededBUTTRESSES
True figure is in this regionREALM
Turn pale when it comes inWHITEN
Under treatment, impart personal depressionARMPIT
Undertake challengeTAKEON
Watering’s always in seasonSPRAYING
When moved, mother and father may talk thusFROMTHEHEART

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,279 – Aug 17 2017

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17 stuck halfway through Paul, Tramp, Vlad, even Rufus? Yes, initiallyULTRA
A choreographer’s entertaining friend that’s French statesmanALABAMIAN
A newly invented word, eg acoge?COINAGE
Absorbing content from singer-songwriterINGESTING
Bass has warning about fish in operaALBERTHERRING
Book by author with no energy blockagesLOGJAMS
Brilliance of one of Elgar’s VariationsGLARE
Court summons gangster caught having sex earlierCITAL
Cross capital, say, to give evidenceTESTIMONY
Doctor pays out to this examining body?AUTOPSY
Found one soldier in elaborately decorated housingORIGINATE
Führer’s edict ruined unknown operaDERFREISCHUTZ
Having no starter, drink ScotchQUASH
Heavenly choir’s first seen after DIY mishap leads to bad backIDYLLIC
Love rat often providing inspiration for poetERATO
More work required on song that’s included with German operaUTOPIALIMITED
Muesli, a little yogurt, nuts — heaven!ELYSIUM
Murder, with bad language beforehandPOLISHOFF
Nuts about you, said film starMAEWEST
Plant herb, not rose, around ravineMACHINERY
Provision for baby agreed during brief correspondenceLAYETTE
Saving money excited holding companyECONOMY
Setter, I’m cross about 7EXTREMIST
Silly me, sure a fiddle featured in operaDIEFLEDERMAUS
Strategy No 11 for an idiotPLANK
Tiny Tim’s first single, oddly playing around America right nowINSTANTLY
Tips off cruel schoolmaster? That’s oddQUEER
Where Puck gets a lot of stick, stalking female sculptorFRINK

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,278 – Aug 16 2017

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Acid removing bird’s tailBITTER
Am I backing second rallying cry for union with Greece?ENOSIS
Author’s grand partiesGRAVES
Bandage one has to clench after bathTUBIGRIP
Be conspicuous, excluding and thickSTOUT
Books in the same place, with litter strewn aboutLIBRETTI
Capital cover for retirement?NIGHTCAP
China encountered Old Testament upside-down semi-tropical treePALMETTO
Choice that hurt woman’s black plantWILLOWHERB
Creep! Groveller! Grub!INCHWORM
Devon resort’s improved with non-drinking element goneBEER
Feeble, not too clever, getting upset over LatinMILD
Greener, VAT-exempt, houses weakenedENERVATE
Hang on, it’s a thorny plantWAITABIT
Hard 7 for Murdoch’s kind of whiskey?IRISH
In the thick of it, dam’s brokenAMIDST
Ladies’ drink?BEVY
Like sleep of wild pony in concealed surroundingsHYPNOID
Make granny form a union?TIETHEKNOT
Oath finally made, go in search of pleasureEGAD
Preacher with a stake in drinkAPOSTLE
Purchase about 50 books first, like Barbara Windsor?BUBBLY
Raise the heat level — oxygen, quick!UPTEMPO
Red, filthy dung-filled townBURGUNDY
Ridiculously easy, almost English languageSINGHALESE
Runs from part-time correspondent, one who goadsSTINGER
Short prince, the queen’s alcoholic successorCHASER
Violet hardly started, so Titian splashed around — quite an ordealVISITATION

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,277 – Aug 15 2017

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After passing, notice cycle right awayOBIT
Bass: turn way downBUST
Broke vow: recorded and jammedOVERCROWDED
Carving top of dry bread, one getting spread outBROADENED
Concerned with soldier, intellectual, from a group of soldiersREGIMENTAL
Drug ring — Yankee showing sign of over­indulgencePOTBELLY
Drunk a lot in Love Me TenderEMOTIONAL
Flipping once more given food delayDEFER
Go off, that’s all rightSOUND
Hang on! That is pantsLINGERIE
Headed over to indep­endent storeDELI
Illegal recording of John, mostly bent over in toiletBOOTLEG
Insists on giving vital supplies in church — payment invested in crossesFORCEFEEDS
Jailhouse workers struggle with habit (drugs)WARDRESSES
Kind of blue shoeOXFORD
King originally called for a bit of legKNEE
Material did rock for the audienceSUEDE
One left European Union — member which might help form motion?ILEUM
One moving smoothly back to Vegas appearing on top showSLIDER
One struts around in terrible film? RubbishTURKEYCOCK
One thinks about lives one harmsMISUSER
Plays with bodyguards protecting president (ignoring Pence)STRUMS
Provided lift? No chance!SODOFF
Row over golf: good golfer admits they don’t have ballsGELDINGS
Scheduling in Graceland toursCALENDARING
Set characteristic cryptic clue; initially missing NinaLUMINANCE
Spitfire’s first fliers circling old planesSMOOTHS
Those screaming as Presley gyratesYELPERS
Unfinished business in toilet — how Elvis begins to die in smallsLOOSEENDS
Worst hit: is second record turned over?PESSIMAL

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,276 – Aug 14 2017

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Back scrubber turning a trickLOOFA
Bury one storyteller, mostly, among othersINTERALIA
Caper about, leg bone’s blood group being altered by drugANTIBIOTIC
Composer, one carrying big picture with nothing on topFRESCOBALDI
Concoction of chilli and black plum proves hard goingUPHILLCLIMB
Dance from Switzerland to city in France at 100 mphCHARLESTON
Dance-related dance quote upendedBALLETIC
Dread adopting digital applications on unknown groundTERRITORY
Exercise intelligence of birdPEWIT
Fenland hero’s English dessert — muscle coated with fishHEREWARDTHEWAKE
Implausibly good type ruined countryEGYPT
Mournful map chapPLANGENT
Musicians send naughty messages to alienSEXTET
Poet turned dullDRAB
Policy changes party leader welcomed as improvementsUPTURNS
Pretty girl’s copper neckwearCUTIE
Protect against wild speculation (odds off)INOCULATE
Respite during cellulite reversalLULL
Rush to interrupt teacher’s Grauniad hallmark?MISPRINTS
Salad’s defect incurs punishment, going westWALDORF
Second stroke results in untidy writingSCRAWL
Svelte supermodel turning 51, previouslyLISSOM
The greatest love traduced inside air sacsALVEOLI
Tries tablets and speaksESSAYS
Unfinished request to get reflux set in stonePEBBLE
Unimportant painting involving point of orderINCONSEQUENTIAL
Violent crime in connected cellsBATTERY
Wherewithal to cut music man’s topknotKNIVES

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,275 – Aug 13 2017

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An accommodating womanLANDLADY
An order you’ll carry out, if you can!PRESERVE
Covers with article inside various editionsCANOPIES
Descriptive of one who can’t settleINDEBT
Farm hand producing lower outputMILKMAID
Fascinated by unusual demeanourENAMOURED
Games enclosures for the very youngPLAYPENS
Go back to bed?RETIRE
Go round the globe on itORBIT
Holds 150 serpentsCLASPS
How to make do?COMPEL
Large sum not declared, apparentlyUNTOLDWEALTH
Make a disturbance to give a lift to the underworldRAISEHELL
Nobly involved with English queen who lost her headBOLEYN
Nowhere near being unapproachableREMOTE
One made to move on cueBILLIARDBALL
One MP has variable ill-fortuneMISHAP
One that always pockets litterMARSUPIAL
Pulse found in virulent illnessesLENTIL
Sea air adds a little weight to oneOZONE
Shoot like this and you’ll probably missATRANDOM
Snooty head of a religious orderSUPERIOR
So long to suffer in a universityADIEU
The state you’re in after the matchMATRIMONY
They try to get opinions among TV audiencesINTERVIEWERS
Thought first of ladies a model of excellenceIDEAL
Upset when given an open transfer?Visiblymoved
When this foreign girl gets married, she loses itSENORITA

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,273 – Aug 10 2017

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Always pound squeezed by foreign currency for a short periodDAYLONG
Book storeRESERVE
Broadly similar, gold cupsLARGO
Chops primarily one’s splitting, as toolCLEAVER
Completely fashionable, sewn?INEVERYWAY
Dogged attitude defining leaders in broadcastSHADOWED
Female faking sex now, organ not to be trusted?FOXNEWS
Funny parts author, scratching head, gets to attach againREENGAGE
Gold medal alongside pens for prolific writerWORDSMITH
Hard or firm, call commercial breaks shrewd businessHORSETRADING
In season, blossoming?SPROUTING
Lake near river, oddly drainedERIE
Liberal Democrats initially anger PM, a sin taking more than one seat?MANSPREADING
Lift prince by the ears?FILLIP
Look good with weaponGLANCE
Moss perhaps old, presume going to seed?SUPERMODEL
Nose picking beginning to obsess cheeky characterPROPERTY
Order to be civil, it having restricted youth?ASBO
Originally starring George Osborne, say, one employed to change film scriptSTORY
Previous individual assessed, found not guiltyEXONERATED
Relations with 12 looking up for old 12XERXES
Round middle of tree, apple was also highly featuredCOSTARRED
See 4EDITOR
See 7PUTIN
Sorcerer’s inspired upon newly embracing Mahler’s first great workMAGNUMOPUS
Stubborn stain needs to be shiftedOBSTINATE
The heavens opening in earnest, the rainstorm’s beginningETHER
Top guy, Ali departs African capital having shut up Foreman, finallyKING
Trick unionists’ alliance, ultimatelyDUPE
World leader — negotiating with Trump and I invalidVLADIMIR

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,270 – Aug 7 2017

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Affectionate message retiring chap’s received is really grandKISSOGRAM
Before river, draw levelTIER
Bright individual flower maiden’s kept in memoryMASTERMIND
Castle of Otranto’s walls besieged by kingsROOK
Dire game across Atlantic, involving ballRUINOUS
Divine figure from sculptor needing no introductionODIN
Face of Lancôme provided with swell launchLIFTOFF
Fed European but not head of stateGMAN
Females in a cool, periodically wintry, feeling of kinshipAFFINITY
High standards for Lisa Simpson, working with energyPROFESSIONALISM
Island arrived at by air, perhapsMADEIRA
Little old lady close to Russian revolutionaryMINUTEMAN
Make lean daughter grilled fetaDEFAT
Many quite outraged and one’s kept calmEQUANIMITY
Maybe farmer’s a source of litter on farm? I’m not sureSOWER
New setter’s joining Times, a selfish sort?NIMBY
One may be travelling dry road around Middle EastDROMEDARY
Overdid a little drink — date is going badlyDRAMATISED
Person knocking on door’s let out after dropping roundOLDSTER
Poet’s refrain about English imperialist notionWHITEMANSBURDEN
Run one?RACE
Scheme to get extremely large pastries from the OrientSTRATAGEM
See 15POLO
Snatched a little butter, then had restKIDNAPPED
Traveller wants nothing sweet after a brandyMARCO
Try to defend Blair over core principlesKEYNOTES
Uncertain German admitted to not having sexCONTINGENT
What includes Post Office counter’s opening timeEPOCH
Where potter may be skilful, pocketing ball in the endDELFT
Workers not working comfortablyHANDSDOWN

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,269 – Aug 6 2017

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After disturbance, centre court’s crowd finally gets composed againRECONSTRUCTED
After meal, left university to tidy upUNEATEN
Conspirator established a ring for revolutionOATES
Corn — that which is full of energy?WHEAT
Editor turning to drink, one with last word?DECIDER
End of term, when book’s to be returned?DUEDATE
Endless manure thrown over home plantCUMIN
English spirit? Little left in a Scottish placeELGIN
Fixer to note: this is lacking muscle toneHYPOTONIC
Graduate school first to get low gradeGAMMA
Irish chief has philosophical principal one gets to see through, not rightTAOISEACH
King, consumed by evils, becomes understoodSINKSIN
Might he be cruelly construed as Darwin’s arch kid?RICHARD
More than one saw some tot misbehavingMOTTOES
Musical passage starts to sound terrific, really exciting to the audienceSTRETTA
Nest I had established in student organisationNIDUS
No longer taking exercise, one in depression needed to get fitEXPEDIENT
Only for blokes, girl shows sluggishnessSTAGNANCY
Prank on the Queen makes one very crossRAGER
Revolting man, who’s a bit of a gameJACKSTRAW
Sea god, grabbing English princess, attempted seductionTRIEDITON
See 5DAWKINS
Sort of bird to deviate, missing northWADER
Story of church fellow in charge, having drink, losing headCHRONICLE
Style me angrier type in religious get-togetherPRAYERMEETING
System of reasoning set up has frantic hospital missing outDIALECTIC
Unnamed items, poor devices getting sticky insideTHINGUMMYJIGS
Where a summary may be found, theoreticallyINTHEABSTRACT