The Guardian - Cryptic - May 9 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,752 - May 9 2022 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
A fifth of money put in collection so far	ASYET
A lover of priestess carrying cross for great king	ALEXANDER
A period of fasting among sources of fruit and sweeties	VALENTINES
American throne for English king	JOHN
Caught, unlike priests __ in court, sort of	CLAY
Closed with rite in unusual order, like monks in monastery	CLOISTERED
Curate muddled about name for mythical creature	CENTAUR
Ecstasy among RC saints confused scriptwriter	SCENARIST
Elected with no change in Washington, pure and simple	INNOCENT
Figurative expressions translated by 11, 21, and 27, say, apart from first page	TROPES
First in a certain line, second cutting in __ bother!	PESTER
Follower of uniform writer of history?	VICTOR
For example, interrupting tardy representative	LEGATE
Gift I can point out __ what preacher's good at	PONTIFICATING
Like some big game one bungled in series	LEONINE
Like some puzzles in mathematics	THEMATIC
Monarch once put foot down on female party member?	STEPHEN
Name of woman the Devil upended with triumphant expression	NATASHA
Not successfully treated, a priest abroad died	UNCURED
One old-fashioned object of veneration	IDOL
Prophetic text in final letter going into East European port	EZEKIEL
Religious aid on which one can count	ROSARY
Religious alliance in turbulent age he and you'll put together	HOLY
Resisted leader of flock repeatedly going outside closed circle	FENDEDOFF
Ring on bishop, with gemstone, ornamental article	OBJET
Role for Catholic woman once in charade __ a con, essentially	DEACONESS
See 9	LEAGUE
Swallow cocktail the second one's left	MARTIN
Time to remember rising in Dublin and Rome?	EASTER