The Guardian - Cryptic - August 24 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 26,972 - August 24 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Clues	Answers
1 down 15, humour lacking in me	CODY
Airborne shooter in range, until shot	TAILGUNNER
Asking how to create starter in a stew, tell me the plan!	WHATS
Criminal charge implicating Turkish leader in country after uprising	CONARTIST
European president once of Harlech (Wales, apparently)	LECH
German order for a cab	HANSOM
Great pass, catcher on the turn	COLOSSAL
Nicest forms with right angle for design template	STENCIL
Novel about German tennis player recited	REBECCA
Opener taking so long to secure victory	VALVE
Outstanding feature, beauty inspiring nothing by German author	ROMANNOSE
Pound on smart card about to beat online and high street retailing	CLICKS
Russian war machine's flipping ace trifle!	GIMCRACK
See 1 down	BILL
See 2	COOKING

 

Clues	Answers
See 25	WALESA
See 4	ANDMORTAR
Setter, perhaps, a big hit in the East End?	BOWWOW
Skeletons in the closet try rattling chain in uproar	DIRTYLINEN
Sound proposal for old king	OFFA
Stage set in extra large retail outlet	MEGASTORE
Stench from a red flower in washbasin	LAVABO
Supporter embarrassed by tackle from behind	GIRDER
Too much land for an empire?	OTTOMAN
US city putting worker in reference book, shortly	ATLANTA
US showman, one settled in upstate New York?	BUFFALO
Wagnerian character may be drawing a pension before end of cycle	ISOLDE
What might make bird stick up for a vegetable?	LEGUME
Withholding Christ's teaching, God is upset with incantation	DISGOSPELLING