The Guardian - Cryptic - Aug 31 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,850 - Aug 31 2022 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
A salty thing, Boatman called 'saint with heart of stone'	MISO
Barrels of rock taken off vessel, leading to questions	CASKS
Careless manicure, losing one of digits	NUMERIC
Carved from tufa stone, immoveable	FAST
Cladding of marble: ideally, even, it could be gold	MEDAL
Guardian's problem with Openreach	CHAPERONE
Having more weight applied to type of rock, say	BOLDER
Heads learn it's unusual	LATRINES
Hide rock, one that holds gold?	SKINFLINT
It's found in rock __ after support it gets to grow	AGATE
Make a hole in second rock that may hold gold	BORE
Moving record of old poet taking last of coterie cycling	VIDEO
Nobody initially excited over faltering A-list marriage	NUPTIALS
One swims in under rock	MARLIN
Parts listed discovered for singer, perhaps	ARTISTE
Perhaps retreat in blunder, losing knight and corps entirely	BUGLECALL
Prickly character criticised nationalist answer on energy	ECHIDNA
Pull together in Cuppers, otherwise one is sunk	SCRAPEUP
Reports of slate being quarried	TALES
River Rock?	HUDSON
Road's ruined: bumps initially accumulate on the surface	ADSORB
Rock from upper bits of tundra: igneous lava terrain	TILT
Running after light that may be seen through this rock	BRIGHTON
Salmon oil, a regular early pro­tection for young vertebrates	AMNIA
Society suffering, but they're making record profits	SHELL
Spooner's rocky nation, you might say, is independent	STANDALONE
Stick of rock? Not one Boatman supports	STAB
Tastes juice, returning to drink coffee __ not a tea, say	PALATES
Terrible person makes noise about Conservative freedom with no rest	SCOUNDREL
The Rock screens lead role	HERO
Tip of tusk, just about trunk	TORSO
Type of rock almost a joke	PUN
Type of rock like lead?	HEAVYMETAL