The Guardian - Cryptic - January 18 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,409 - Jan 18 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
After scratching of head, nothing penned by composer is a disappointment	FAILURE
Brahms and Liszt in the spotlight	LITUP
Composer is beyond preposterous	TALLIS
Composer on the case of correct decision	VERDICT
Composer's name for composer	WEBERN
Fiddle not half inspiring difficult child — that's the effect of music!	VIBRATO
For example, prepare an Ottoman composer to invade revolutionary Peru	UPHOLSTER
Glass one may be dropping?	TUMBLER
Grand work of Elgar, an exercise in music	LARGE
Group has little time to invest in composer	BATCH
Has that lady visited an illicit bar?	SHEBEEN
In flaming, fire disturbed	ROUSTED
Instead, a general saying	ADAGE
Known leaders in baseball league, one entering competition after an upset	PUBLIC
Late actor has shifted tree to the left	SHARIF
Lice high on combination of acid and alcohol in cheese	LEICESTER
Much bloodshed as one composer almost crushed by another	CARNAGE
New Testament suggested the coolest of times?	MIDWINTER
Old man after a drop of cream with high tea	CUPPA
One offering a cut, as composer	BARBER
Out of it, put to death	STONED
Ravel, last of wet fish	TANGLE
Scarcely any absent in curfew, unlike degenerate less fortunate	UNLUCKIER
See 11	SCALE
She abandons playwright after a write-up, an all-time low	NADIR
Show remorse having put mint in sage I chopped up	APOLOGISE
Sit alongside robin with huge bats	NEIGHBOUR
They've got something worse to broadcast about capital in Nairobi	OWNERS
Those who polish railway apparatus	BUFFERS
Tuesday 7th of September off — 8th of September past it then?	USEBYDATE
Ultimately flat, instrument that's sharp	THORN
Way of acting silly with feet in a pickle	LIFESTYLE