The Guardian Cryptic Apr 29 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,120 - April 29 2020 - Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
Acerbic novel Conrad's written about Italy	SARDONIC
Barely a trickle of prose, a little limited in variation	DROPLETS
Boatman has absurd identity: lost and lifeless	ABIOTIC
Bold and loud, not able to listen?	FEARLESS
Book by Sartre in translation	ARREST
Book for music: TS Eliot losing special composition about brother	LIBRETTO
Books into endless misery at Fawlty Towers?	HOTEL
Documentaries about losing minors' letters in train	EDUCATE
Feminist bishop found in Latin bible, perhaps	LIBBER
Follow spoken narrative	TALE
Foundations of life on radio __ 'diverting, robustly educational, informative' __ that's him	LORDREITH
Grumble: lacking money, say	UTTER
In this way, prose would be got up, daringly exposed	TOPLESS
Index in book makes desperate editor cry	DIRECTORY
Love is an entry for a sound relationship	ADORE
Margin of book, its left edge on top	BORDER
Outgoing type of regular mermaid girl, eh?	EMIGRE
Perhaps annual staff meeting for partners in Reading	BOOKCLUB
Petronas and Exxon initially put fish back to get source of oil	PEANUT
See 4	BLOCK
Shelf with foremost of reference books	LEDGER
Shelves for books	RESERVES
Slim volume put back in centre section of bureau	REMOTE
So long introduction to text, before contents of book, led oddly to Dickens character	TOODLEPIP
Spooner says cad's loud music is why he can't start his book	WRITERS
They make good theatre __ broadcast with reprise, even	REPAIRERS
Unexpected twist in US version of Pound: king taking knight	KICKER
Was book's content order intended to be restrictive?	ASBO