The Guardian - Cryptic - December 29 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,080 - December 29 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Clues	Answers
A case of what should properly be used to cover a floor	CARPETBAG
A drug-taking bicyclist is transforming ease of comprehension	ACCESSIBILITY
Allowance: Southend, given space, takes hint	STIPEND
British sort of insult: 'Camp outfit!'	BUTLINS
Charing Cross? Exasper­ation!	CHAGRIN
Cordial poured over hot body support	CHASSIS
Decorating audacious men libels them	EMBELLISHMENT
Ease up as a master sommelier? That's rude	TASTELESS
English politics constituted of letters	EPISTOLIC
Evacuation: one leaves before last of Tory Opposition	ENEMY
Field of European football team not banner-free?	REALM
Find oneself getting round Aintree (beaten, outside time)	ORIENTATE
Greek pain container of legend	GRAIL
Gruesomely large openings on total wreck of part of larynx	GLOTTAL

 

Clues	Answers
Indian songbird — medicine man removes tail	SHAMA
Not first winter transfer taken by Price, the player	CORNETIST
Not one initial interaction with USA, which went down controversially	LUSITANIA
Plant used science to change carbon to oxygen	SENECIO
Radius covered by diagonal shaped candleholder	GIRANDOLA
Rag label cover protecting ring	TABLOID
Ray: gather name's changed to Miles	GLEAM
Reflective lines of energy on stage yard	ELEGY
Star lives over a narrow cavity	SINUS
Stockhausen wasn't a heavyweight — a Lambert!	TONAL
Tip over mock seaweed	CARRAGEEN
Trailing insulation	LAGGING
TS Eliot's timeless 'Gnostic, quixotic sect member'	SCIENTOLOGIST
Whose patients are laid back? Yes and no	PSYCHOANALYST