The Guardian Cryptic Mar 17 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,083 - Mar 17 2020 - Puzzle Solutions

Clues	Answers
... Abba or A-ha? Do-re-mi plan scuppered	PALINDROME
... involves one adding 24/6	MIDSUMMERDAY
24/6? Starting from zero initially, usual reckoning ...	FOUR
Born to Run in tights? Journalist is very drunk	BLADDERED
Cooking apple, large and sour, useful in many ways	ALLPURPOSE
Day and date during good month for a bit of Mendelssohn?	WEDDINGMARCH
Executive position, brewing cider __ sort drunk with joint	DIRECTORSHIP
Females once carrying a torch for Puck perhaps, rejected after enjoyment outside front of house	USHERETTES
Film buff	SHINE
Fruit of ruby red colour, half gone off	CLOUDBERRY
Good-for-nothing Born to Run live disc is included	NEERDOWELL
Kiss on the lips? Puck will, get­ting into trouble for minor misconduct	PECCADILLO
Lacking support, like the Yard after a third cut	FOOT
Larks with all but topless chicks?	EARLYBIRDS
Newspaper article covering page in dictionary	OPED
Partaking of booze killed wrestling champion	OZEKI
People praising one of those late goals use it excitedly, without beginning to apologise	EULOGISTS
Play instrument, backing ...	LOOT
Result of getting 19 in German city around midnight?	HANG
Ring male that's caught in the firing line	OCHE
Sandwich and a little drink as well? Not quite in amounts produced in a summer's day	SUBTOTALS
See 1	OVER
See 22	LESS
Setter almost flipped __ health resort has no Special Brew	CUPPA
Stupid as one Conservative MP, with ale leading to Labour candidate's complaint	ECLAMPSIA
Taken for a ride by gangster, triumph then fly	HOODWINKED
What a sidekick plays, using spare racket	SECONDFIDDLE
Women seen through curtains? They're not the sober type	NEWTS