The Guardian - Cryptic - August 2 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 26,953 - August 2 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Clues	Answers
Bit of a bloomer finishes off chess game — mate	SEPAL
Celebrity of European person showing up here	NAME
Except for its head, river is brown	UMBER
Fellow scoffed a lot	FATE
Field hospital under pressure in dry setting	SPHERE
Flaws in conclusions from some idiotic ass without sound reflection	ECHOLESS
Interpreter of text, say, kept in college mostly	EXEGETE
Isolated state reduced, unfortunately	ALAS
Languages such as Hebrew, including old study of signs	SEMIOTICS
Late genius that may prefix other solutions	ECO
Leading pairs eliminated from race came late — very grave situation	CEMETERY
Male put on a garment nothing stops	HEAVESTO
National leader performing in moving protest	MONARCH
Not dry, like 10 of 27, regardless of 1	SWEET
Notice about South American oil source	SESAME
Organisations unknown in small parts of plant	SYSTEMS
Page in some novel set in town, of course	EPSOM

 

Clues	Answers
Pair contracted fever in capital	PRAGUE
Part of grounds and pitch where kids can play	SANDPIT
Piano I installed in disorderly club open to all	PUBLIC
Pink was revolting	ROSE
Pound invested in lesser bet — oddly, it's bound to make money	BESTSELLER
Primate set over south part of church	APSE
Ruined couple's mutual fund — that shows effect of world revolution	FOUCAULTS
See 24 across	PENDULUM
Short program about English fruit producer	APPLETREE
Spy chief taken in by deception, in a sense	SMELL
Standing before court	ERECT
Suddenly put in the know, quietly call in child	SPRINGUPON
Top player suffering reverse at first as leading man	TSAR
Travel with author's son and private teacher	GOVERNESS
Travels round city on Loire	TOURS
What poets generally do, Keats and Yeats don't	RHYME