The Guardian – Cryptic crossword No 28,112 – Apr 20 2020 – Puzzle Answers
Published in The Guardian Cryptic Crossword.
| Clues | Answers |
| Alarming to be treated as almost irrelevant | MARGINAL |
| Alluring, one’s castle | GLAMIS |
| Almost making a mess of cake | MUFFIN |
| Assert a company must employ female | AFFIRM |
| British legislating blasted for its bad language | BILLINGSGATE |
| Dancing, a girl hadn’t to lose all momentum | GRINDTOAHALT |
| Flag when monarch’s aboard ship | STREAMER |
| Getting to the end of this exhausts one’s patience | TETHER |
| Giving a signal to be lining up for hearing | CUEING |
| Italian speaking in a whisper | SOTTOVOCE |
| Looking offended, finding bit of toenail in small fish | BRISTLING |
| Man forcefully expelling one with ill will | MALEVOLENTLY |
| Officer rank needed to win a seat? | MAJORITY |
| One may go up in a few ticks | TIMEBOMB |
| One taking piano course? | PLAYER |
| Order thesaurus in online form? | EDICT |
| Plain, nothing to excite cockney | NOFRILLS |
| Refuse left by dyke builder | OFFAL |
| Relatives reform, being adaptable | VERSATILE |
| Respectably neat, is one less likely to be infected? | CLEANCUT |
| Sensitive to pain in small boat | TENDER |
| Served in the army? Not one joined | SOLDERED |
| Some small Amazonian animal | LLAMA |
| Sort of chest that may be scraped | BARREL |
| Staying in bed, say, a great honour for a body | LYINGINSTATE |
| Teacher locked up, being wasted | MISSPENT |
| The Commonwealth: it could hardly be more distant from Britain | AUSTRALIA |
| What storms do, circling northern mountains | RANGE |