The Guardian - Cryptic - September 7 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,297 - Sep 7 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
Ask for it?	APPEAL
Being a dad briefly involved frivolous repartee	BADINAGE
Caper around with the ultimate in ostentation?	PRANCE
Carefully choose journalist welcoming new measure of resolution	HANDPICK
Cat with bad intention gets the bird	WHIP
Cool phone?	LAIDBACK
Extremely wary, in case needing to cross lake	LEERIEST
French government with a Liberal left in charge	GALLIC
Have complete faith in lawyers? Not initially, when upset about first of burglaries	SWEARBY
It's never this cat getting run over, when looking both ways before beginning to walk	TOMORROW
Kids' mother follows nose, right away finding party	HOOTENANNY
Kiss-and-cuddle accounts are for the birds	SPOONBILLS
Led astray by party leader taken in by ridiculous load of nonsense	FLAPDOODLE
Loud music on tablet, after soft drink	FRAPPE

 

Clues	Answers
Lout in black jumper turned up	BOOR
Lovely place to live no one wants?	DESRES
May claim this, from time wearing black	STABLE
May claim this? Patience possibly needed	STRONG
One that reads the Mirror in Lens?	EYEGLASS
One that's played with Pelé and Lukaku recalled a King Power outing	UKULELE
Rich relative given gold ring by Uncle Sam	SONOROUS
Rising late, without handy place for early retirement?	DAYBED
See 24	POOR
See 24 across	WILL
Setter perhaps loves the German whose assistance is not always welcomed	DOGOODER
Support for key person in soap playing instrument	PIANOSTOOL
Swell quarters, altogether sweet	TOFFEE
Whence fortified wine once produced? On river there only, originally	OPORTO