The Guardian - Cryptic - Apr 19 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,735 - Apr 19 2022 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
A bit of her novel is set within Scotland's borders	SHRED
As a finish to hatter's ambition?	TOCAPITALL
Bishop walking and picking fruit	BRAMBLING
Blackbird's dish?	BOWL
Brexit negotiator swaps note with Republican fence	BARRIER
Business relationship	AFFAIR
Discontented Japanese leave teas, wanting Eastern favourites	DARLINGS
Elves are beautiful in elegant stripy tops	FAIRIES
Ground flour? Of course, no longer sure __ it's faded	OFFCOLOUR
How to maintain an accurate tally of fortified towers?	KEEPCOUNT
In the Mirror, comic Brand plugs impression of wine	RIOJA
King breaks nose, shirtless, of rugby player	HOOKER
Long to decorate? Not I!	PANT
Lord installs square safe	PETER
Material carried by wobbly crate	LYCRA
Missed final? Nothing replaces Arsenal's crown	LOST
More flexible to take Latin during meal	SUPPLER
National enters 25 countries	LANDS
Naughty child can regularly keep reading	TINKER
Novelist drops back knowing one's a pest	GREENFLY
Penny's annoyed by design originally being copied without permission	PIRATED
Pisa can't be rebuilt by leaders	CAPTAINS
Queen always follows a half of stout with tablet	GUINEVERE
Sailor steals one advanced piece of jewellery	TIARA
Short reptile in half of China	CROC
Simultaneously elected soldier and three students taking English	INPARALLEL
Soldiers go back-to-back during exercise, 1 out of 10?	PIGGIE
Time for an old political journalist	DAY
Walk dogs, perhaps in retirement	STEP
Welsh football manager once hugged by Kitty as 'a man of the people'	POPULIST
Whisky calls?	BELLS
Woman returns recent delivery with contents missing	WENDY
Young people cry when lifted up over your head	BOYS