The Guardian - Cryptic - August 3 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,267 - Aug 3 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
3, for example, finally getting a job?	NOWINSITUATION
4 the record, holding empty luggage out	ASLEEP
A lot of beer consumes dole money in rough bar	PIGIRON
Always the same suit fabric? That's a 9	PERPETUALCHECK
American native suggests a pseudonym for Eliot?	OPOSSUM
At start of intifada, gunmen question one Arab	IRAQI
Authorise me to return pawn, not so important after the opening	EMPOWER
Chief exec engages 14's predecessor to travel back with minimum staff	MANANDDOG
Country houses a small river flowing into a big one	GRANGES
Curly veg, if sound, consumed as religious rule	CALIPHATE
Fitness fanatic making one change — one'll get rid of bad influences	EXORCISER
Going to get architect for nothing, making hard grind	GNASHING
Goodness masking evil: example that may be handed to you on a plate	WILLOWPATTERN
Gradually chip away tons in a space of time	WHITTLE

 

Clues	Answers
How Wordsworth saw a crowd in a high-rise long ago	ALLATONCE
Is youngster fit for this culture at the Met?	CANTEEN
Killer I see reported going to block at Stonehenge for execution	ARSENIC
Leah's dad gives dog a name	LABAN
Mad stranger turns out to be 14, for example	GRAND
Month, bleak and damp, turning summery?	WARM
Playing, I ought to win from the start, but give up	GOWITHOUT
School being over, sister hugs Mark, college champion	MAGNUSCARLSEN
See 23	MASTER
Serious writer's concession: a little comedy in the gaps	SOPHOCLES
Spread a little butter on end of slice	PATE
Trumpeter's burst stomach	SATCHMO
Underground, is it? Or time to take a taxi?	TUBER
Vessel with some honey in crypt	CATACOMB