The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,749 - May 5 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,749 - May 5 2022 Crossword Solutions

Clues	Answers
About little lost fish	ROUGHY
Angler's instrument brought up unknown quantity of fish	DORY
Beloved as earth to Spooner, that's obvious	CLEARASDAY
Bit of bread offered to newt, which Ken Livingstone liked	FARLEFT
Boatman put one out skilfully	ABLY
Boatman's one to advance as a paradigm	IMAGO
Cooked Dover sole	DONE
Encourages recount __ you might say 'pardon'	EXONERATE
Even a smidgen of evidence	SIGN
Familiar name for humble member of a large organisation (women only)	COGNOMEN
Fish both ways in the sea	MARLIN
Fish missing an hour, going astray	ERRING
Forsaken, nevertheless reportedly a looker	LORGNETTE
Go into chippy, if fish goes first	ENTER
Having fun in a boat going in to fish	LARKING
Inclines to take radical stances	ASCENTS
Instrument with which to try to catch fish?	CASTANET
Iran expel ill-treated guide	EXPLAINER
It's been used to make sauce for aeons by fermentation	SOYBEAN
Julienne or fillet of fish re-dressed	SHRED
Little fish thoroughly sautéed __ it's first for gut-busting cuisine	FRYUPS
Made a mess of catching hammer­head, getting beaten	THRASHED
Many fish thus swallowing hard on a line	SHOAL
Old man eats fish guts in Italy	PISA
On fishing for orca, I spy tuna's snout __ that's fishy	PISCATORY
Perhaps fin or tail of whiting are broken at the end	ORGAN
Place trap for fish around regions close to the Nile Delta?	NEAREAST
Sheerness embracing King and Crown with one last word	DERNIERCRI
Sliced mullet?	CUT
Time to take a different position in the issue of sight	OPTIC
Tips of shark's teeth: evil, edged like a sword	STEEL
Traps set for little fish	SPRAT
Warning about a little lost fish	NEMO