The Guardian - Cryptic - July 17 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Guardian Puzzle - Cryptic crossword No 28,188 - Jul 17 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
Rummaged for a slice of pomme de terre frite from the east	FERRETED
Against Lewis larking about	ANTICS
At the centre of next spy plot, free warrior and adventurer	EXPLORER
By which to take control, organising checks often to incarcerate 50% of ruffians	SCRUFFOFTHENECK
Candy gadgeteers nod off	EASTEREGG
Conveniently ignored area of revolting snot build-up? Not us!	BLINDSPOT
Donald Trump, the first American king	TUSK
Dropping preliminaries, sleep with newly-wed in storage space	LUMBER
Friend we would back may, at a stretch, be 16 at the front?	DEWLAP
Gold pens hide fiction	STORIES
Holiday item?	TIMEOFF
In obstetrics, is it best to ignore the odds and take no action?	STET
In-house pansies, primarily as flower arrangement	CHAPLET
Jacques Derrida served up wines for communists	REDS
Mostly, you and I grappled with problem protein, for one	BIOPOLYMER
Old radio's last cry?	CRYSTALSET
One possible choice for Hamlet appearing before jolly or unknown island town	Tobermory
Philistine's job, on the other hand, is a fake	IMPOSTOR
Reject one way or the other	LEPER
Search for something in the baroque style	QUEST
Second-rate heel for shoe	BROGUE
See 21	ROOM
Seek asylum in UK, get a free settlement	TAKEREFUGE
Small part of what comes next said you fell in love head over heels	OVULE
Soldier is one of four captured by other side	SQUADDIE
They appear in recital to sing	ALTOS
They are not being true lovers	ROMANCERS
Where birds breed round New Yorker circles	ROOKERY
Whereby patient session starts with therapist's bottom in designer chair amid wise pronouncement	PSYCHIATRY