The Guardian - Cryptic - July 31 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,264 - Jul 31 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
Act without control and don't spare a tear	LETITRIP
Advantage of top-cut grass	EDGE
Breakdown is its own possible cure	ANALYSIS
Broadcast put back	RELAY
Canadian resort artist	WHISTLER
Character who drowned, one grabbed by shark possibly	LEANDER
Country that informally gives boozer heart	AUSTRALIA
Cross, if Yorkshire holds become fixed	OSSIFY
Dies in distress — Kay intervenes — sent heavenward	SKIED
Digging group entertaining fancy diner?	GARDENING
Eat it and dancing is hit	ATTAINED
Figures on ancestral houses echoing quality	RESONANCE
Fold back electronic snail mail reply facilitator (Roman Catholic)	CREASE
Grey hat tipped or removed	SOMBRE
Hacked email about eastern country's US-style disease	LEUKEMIA

 

Clues	Answers
Key sporting event about to return	OPENER
Miss relief — in pieces	MAIDEN
Orchestrated UN's clash with second German political union	ANSCHLUSS
Pointedly edit written work?	PUNCTUATE
Put up with no bull!	BEAR
Result of one who was fired up for a sporting contest?	ASHES
Round hook?	CATCH
Rows over press-ganging school's head for assembly	SESSION
Runners on this start to slow step	SLEDGE
Senior, quaintly rotten inside, whose clients put something on the horses	SADDLER
Sense a change, taking millions all together	ENMASSE
So astronauts may be bound to get tense, being overwhelmed by hardware malfunction	EARTHWARD
Vengeful character taking pick to Egyptian god	ELECTRA
Wasn't the only entertainer to fashion hoods etc	COHOSTED
Year One, being involved in Latin: state 'poetic'	LYRICAL