The Guardian Cryptic Apr 20 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,112 - April 20 2020 - Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
Alarming to be treated as almost irrelevant	MARGINAL
Alluring, one's castle	GLAMIS
Almost making a mess of cake	MUFFIN
Assert a company must employ female	AFFIRM
British legislating blasted for its bad language	BILLINGSGATE
Dancing, a girl hadn't to lose all momentum	GRINDTOAHALT
Flag when monarch's aboard ship	STREAMER
Getting to the end of this exhausts one's patience	TETHER
Giving a signal to be lining up for hearing	CUEING
Italian speaking in a whisper	SOTTOVOCE
Looking offended, finding bit of toenail in small fish	BRISTLING
Man forcefully expelling one with ill will	MALEVOLENTLY
Officer rank needed to win a seat?	MAJORITY
One may go up in a few ticks	TIMEBOMB
One taking piano course?	PLAYER
Order thesaurus in online form?	EDICT
Plain, nothing to excite cockney	NOFRILLS
Refuse left by dyke builder	OFFAL
Relatives reform, being adaptable	VERSATILE
Respectably neat, is one less likely to be infected?	CLEANCUT
Sensitive to pain in small boat	TENDER
Served in the army? Not one joined	SOLDERED
Some small Amazonian animal	LLAMA
Sort of chest that may be scraped	BARREL
Staying in bed, say, a great honour for a body	LYINGINSTATE
Teacher locked up, being wasted	MISSPENT
The Commonwealth: it could hardly be more distant from Britain	AUSTRALIA
What storms do, circling northern mountains	RANGE