The Guardian - Cryptic - December 2 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,057 - December 2 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Clues	Answers
Fizzy gin and it does lead to organic decomposition	DIGESTION
Adolescent going to Post Office for illicit liquor	POTEEN
Aircraft got diverted around Zimbabwean leader's la-la land	PLANETZOG
Area embracing state's belief system	RELIGION
Attach an inner layer to navy fabric	LINEN
Boy standing to welcome Hungary's first writer	DAHL
Doctor taking drug to poor lad in madhouse	BEDLAM
Drama series set in computerless IT company!	SITCOM
Drive away with panini filling during celebration	BANISH
Endless destitution is plain for all to see	OVERT
Fastener made by special workers on ship	SCREW
Graph in Chapter 1 redrawn	PIECHART
Lecturer tucked into hot cake	STOLLEN
List drug written up as class A	TIP
Note added to unusual tune for dance	MINUET
Piece in newspaper covering Steptoe & Son?	FRAGMENT

 

Clues	Answers
Pope and priest working on disagreement	PONTIFF
Publicity about animal on ship	ABOARD
See 16	TOP
Series of steps looks hard to an audience	STAIRS
Setter's into dirty books to get first of six basic principles	RUDIMENTS
Six surrounding American in pub to no avail	INVAIN
Snap shut?	CLOSEUP
Soldier on exercise to reverse changes	PERSEVERE
Sound of dry grass	RYE
Starts to eat dry and mouldy cheese	EDAM
Storyline involving international aviator	PILOT
Terrible film about Newgate's first jailer	TURNKEY
Unkind people decapitated animals	OTTERS
Vet with ideas about drug	SEDATIVE
Woman in short uniform	EVE
Worry about Tory leader joining large organisation restricting free trade	CARTEL