The Guardian - Cryptic - Jan 19 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 26,784 - Jan 19 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Clues	Answers
Adjutant in theory moving closer to the front	AIDE
Autobiographical scribblings of Arachne in sea at St Tropez?	MEMOIR
Bit backside of dim Conservative in contempt	MODICUM
Bloody huge birds	FLAMINGOS
Bored Cockney geezer in dark shed	BROWNEDOFF
Chesterton, perhaps, or the individual behind 'Thursday'	AUTHOR
Chinless wonder departs with grave expression	DRIP
Chubby-faced, louche, rubicund host	CHERUBIC
Cup of tea with 14	CHALICE
French city state had money	BORDEAUX
Goes on ramble on vacation and comes back	RETURNS
Haughty female pursuing Murphy in Mumbai?	ALOOF
Inhales aroma permeating smalls	SNIFFS
Invalid setting off after lass, excited and tense	FALSESTART
Nasty Cameron's base promises to pay off debts	NOXIOUS

Clues	Answers
One's about to cover race in Grauniad, supposedly	MISPRINT
Pensioner ignoring a twitching of the eye	OPTIC
Promises made by politicians as I foment revolt	MANIFESTO
Reasons Barking isn't Venice	INCENTIVES
Removing clothes here, Freda dropped a clanger	ERRED
Sailor ringed by faint nocturnal shimmer	STARLIGHT
Singer knocking stuffing out of clever, obstreperous boy	CROSBY
Support for labourers, if left back in Minnesota?	MIDWESTERN
Swarm of relaxed, fit Etonians	INFESTATION
The likes of Jude, single mother with kids on street	STONEMASONS
Turn up car engine noise	PURR
Voice of ballot box regularly ignored	ALTO
Was SAS single-handedly apprehending killer?	ASSASSIN
Weedy kid's condition worrying nit nurses	RUNTINESS
Well content with exchange rate	WATER