The Guardian - Cryptic - October 24 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,337 - Oct 24 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
A very empty bowl firstly filling old tin vessel on dinner table	GRAVYBOAT
Awful rogue bedding good fan	GROUPIE
Bill's partner welcoming king before state ceremony	CORONATION
Call on someone to gather first of licensed material	POPLIN
Cut of meat, free bait	SPARERIB
Do turn	SCREW
Entering sport, degenerate retaining cards originally — general idea behind poker?	PROCTOLOGIST
Flower planted in plot, usually	LOTUS
Huge beast thirty seconds away from island?	ORCA
In drink, elder knocked over, seeing stars	PEGASUS
Initially brought from river on island, bones	HUMERI
Injured boxer not on old ship — this one?	CUTTYSARK
Jeer, as local put on stretcher	BARRACK
Loathe flower box	EXECRATE
Muslim queen is brighter	SUNNIER

 

Clues	Answers
Number one from George, John and Paul's dismal	GLOOMY
One giving permission, I say?	LETTER
One has to record sleep after climbing peak in Nepal one's scaled	PANGOLIN
One's always helping to improve, using very bad grammar?	DOGOODER
Preamble, introduction to read in literary composition	PROEM
Sell a pup to bird	ROOK
Switch back selection	REARRANGE
To a great degree, where taste initially is found in sweetness?	INMANYWAYS
Top squares belonging to Guardian supporters	OURS
Toper sloshed, post complaint	PROTESTATION
Unsatisfactory track, non-starter	POOR
What do I find sensually gratifying? Don't mention it!	MYPLEASURE
Where potential ministers learn caution ultimately, dividing two houses?	SEMINARIES
Where Victoria found love, priest's vestment not required, still	INERT
Winger starred with flankers in blue pants	REDBREAST