The Guardian - Cryptic - April 6 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,165 - April 6 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Clues	Answers
Ahead after business takeover	COUP
Artist's images capturing area like that	PICASSO
Berlin quartet plugging song around holiday location	RIVIERA
Doctor prods Communist leader to take rhythmic steps	MAMBO
Escalating row throughout housing development	GROWTH
Fancied velvet sheen, so moving in attractive display (5,2,3,5,5)	DANCEOF
Fiddle with computers the wrong way	SCAM
Gents drunkenly tip hat, with best man losing head	JOHNTHE
Hair from bears covering bear's tail	STRANDS
Heading for Baghdad or Tehran, travelling's awful	ABHORRENT
In Paris, a setback preceding current government's undoing	UNHITCHING
It describes judge, given shocking treatment in a seedy spot	ADJECTIVE
Maybe shame-faced politician defends borders	CRIMSON
Mostly work fast to get wealthy	OPULENT
Name in Irish, but oddly not befitting these isles	UNBRITISH

 

Clues	Answers
National rate cut by operator finally without penalty	SCOTFREE
Painter's current giant frames	TITIAN
Perhaps nun's to change entertaining scripture	VOTARY
Problem for reader English tutor grasps OK	EYESTRAIN
Rock star's acid rush, following right musician	RICHARD
Seductress not changing welcoming look	SALOME
See 2	STRAUSS
See 28	BAPTIST
See 8	THESEVENVEILS
Son backing intense expedition	SPEED
Tailor has place for putting leather	SHAGREEN
Two insects, not large but strongly built	BEEFY
Understood old historian's left America	TACIT
Wit lacking restraint has nothing to worry about	OSCARWILDE