The Guardian - Cryptic - April 20 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,177 - April 20 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Clues	Answers
A bird, dropping one animal, returned diving equipment	AQUALUNG
Baffle with incomplete limb	STUMP
Be thrifty and move on time	BUD
Be useful to island engulfed by reflux of magma	AVAIL
Disagree about American electrical apparatus	DIFFUSER
District capital's hospital	PARISH
Eels prove slippery and fail to rise	OVERSLEEP
Entrance friend eating golden treacle to begin with	PORTAL
Escape from 5, getting A & E confused	GETAWAY
Folk band turned into premier ethnographic exhibit, for starters	PEOPLE
Important person's documentation found in here	PRESIDENT
Like a great stylist Puritans love madly	PROUSTIAN
Loud, dangerous and full of fun	FRISKY
Novelist about to infiltrate some DNA	GREENE
Odoriferous plant secures second trick	RUSE
Philosopher placing article amid pieces of music	BARTHES

 

Clues	Answers
Promise to put piano on shelf	PLEDGE
Requiring little effort to be relaxed	EASY
Rule out piece of Chopin, say, covering his head	PRECLUDE
Say no to iron getting turned into 11	REF
See 16	GET
See 17	USE
Set about 30 8 of 18 3?	STRUMPET
Slow down born libertine	BRAKE
Snake's exhausted, holding soldiers back	SERPENT
Squirrel's introduction to nut curtailed by fish	SALMON
True vice half-destroyed, surprisingly, by its opposite	VIRTUE
Unconvincing verdict on reorganisation	CONTRIVED
Unrefined blades in church	COARSE
Upend fountain erected around the beginning of November	INVERT
Virtuosic old city set in Spanish coast	BRAVURA
Western sultanate's frailty, according to Hamlet	WOMAN