The Guardian - Cryptic - August 30 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,290 - Aug 30 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
Actor extracting copper from a lot of salad ingredients served with ham and hollandaise sauce?	BENEDICT
Article inaccurate I alter, do I?	EDITORIAL
As a crossword is finished, well-informed	CLUEDUP
Asian leader, man in vessel from the East	NEHRU
Capital quiet, after endless cheers on Japanese borders	SKOPJE
Cow, like her mate?	BULLY
Draw in game set to change	MAGNETISE
Drive crooked mile around Peterhead	IMPEL
Ear to brain, extraordin­ary lapse	ABERRATION
First two of seven different punches — that will teach you!	SOTHERE
Flower of Lancashire and Yorkshire neither red nor white?	ROSE
Issue driven by these gambles, modest cut invested	PUSHY
Look for New York to contain a countering team from that city?	YANKEES
Misery, western and Aliens — nothing between them	WETBLANKET
One group breaking record that's nutty	NOISETTE

 

Clues	Answers
Pat on the back far from rare?	WELL
Plane perhaps hijacked by buccaneer, turning back	TREE
Planet clearly illuminated using iron and lead	EVENINGSTAR
Prisoner at first notably distressed to be incarcerated in old area of punishment?	PENALTYBOX
Ridge on course to lose a 21	SCOTSPINE
Secret society's opening, they carelessly having hidden key	STEALTHY
See 12	DONE
See 17	CUMBERBATCH
See 4	PARENTS
Sky put article in text of news story	CANOPY
Support figure going over testament, as advocate	PROPONENT
Those partial to chicken and chips in for unsightly fat!	DOUBLECHIN
UN secretary-general in truth anti-imperialist	UTHANT
Unlikely to fill empty seats in part of the theatre	STALLS
Vegetarian diet under microscope, initially	MEATLESS