The Guardian - Cryptic - March 28 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,469 - Mar 28 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
10 caught during escape don't count	EXCLUDE
After fancy exercises, band's sobbing quietly	WHIMPERING
Bond's partner formerly occupying Students' Union	NEXUS
Brave comic ultimately loses interest in script	WITHSTAND
Case supporting idle property owner	FREEHOLDER
Charge imposed on a variety of basic commercial vehicles	TAXICABS
Cleric appearing on donkey in church causes deep division	CREVASSE
Complex seminars not quite hitting the mark	NEARMISS
Confirmed nickname for Edward, the ocean sailor?	DEEPSEATED
Confused detective hampered by gut reaction	INDISTINCT
Course of action at entering pub?	PATH
Cut, but not polished, when suggested?	ROUGHHEWN
English invading prosperous foreign state	REICH
Had a life before wife turned up	WERE
Husband's lacking in flair — a cure-all's offered	PANACEA
I stray off course in South American mountains	SIERRA
It's said capacious hanky's needed, if you're like this	RHEUMY
Keels over, having striven in conflict	INVERTS
Manufacturer of cars, many with posh interior	LOTUS
Particular Democrat isn't first to yield	DAINTY
Person striving to keep motorways in better condition	TRIMMER
Recondite manoeuvres protecting two hospital departments in secure housing	DETENTIONCENTRE
Remarkably old theologian disheartened laity	ODDLY
Sergeant, say, getting up one day full of himself?	NONCOM
So close, having swopped ends	THUS
Son's leaving even now to work in field	TILL
Tsar's necessary after turn of century and easily dealt with	NOTROUBLE
What's put out for famous moggy, perhaps on Yorks coast?	REDCARPET
White rebel is obliged to guards	MUSCADET