The Guardian - Cryptic - August 18 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,527 - Aug 18 2021 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
2 and 4 expressed as a 12	INLIEU
Ant 'n' Dec say really good jokes without cracking	COWORKERS
Biden regularly on time visiting Conservative after no bad publicity	NOTORIETY
Charlie joins a book club __ he should know his way around	CABDRIVER
Court date leading to deal, maybe	WOOD
Credit petrol company over bioenergy reserve fund __ ultimately, it's inward-looking	CROSSEYED
Crime writer __ one with wicked output	CHANDLER
Essential items named before marriage (introductions to dating sites)	NEEDS
First part of play has touching effect	ACTION
Flamboyant jumper worn by choice, oddly	ROCOCO
How's your father after little brother sent back cycle?	ORBIT
Insect breaking in to ferret's food store	PANTRY
Make changes to help pair secure operation	HIP
Mushroom feast	SPREAD
Nurse fits in coil, say, rejecting all potential for breeding?	GENEPOOL
Perhaps Shearer offers this nose around German and Italian training for starters	PUNDITRY
Preen Oscar for university ball	DOLLOP
Pugilist's complaint about shoulder, essentially __ I'm afraid of boxing shame?	CAULIFLOWER
Put kilo on, occasionally full of fig pudding	KULFI
Rover corporation's retaining a lawyer with personal hygiene issue	GADABOUT
See 2	REPLACEMENT
See 8	EAR
Spill lime and soda over men returning to supply toilets	LADIESROOM
Stuck-up doctor eating egg I cooked	RIGGED
Suspended journalist on board	STAYED
Swedish on vacation love cycling to clear stuff away	SHOVEL
Temporarily take refuge __ appropriate for all to ring	BORROW
The topless ladies' man turned up with an ecclesiastical scholar	THEOLOGIAN
Transport runs on iron railway	FERRY
Travel about collecting papers	RIDE