The Guardian - Cryptic - Feb 7 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,674 - Feb 7 2022 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Advantage gained by Dutch champion during preliminary race	HEADSTART
Axe stunted trees	SCRUB
Best alfresco function?	OUTDO
Bishop put on garment over part of nun's habit	BARB
Boozer drinking hooch finally fired	SHOT
Cambridge mathematician with right approach to resistance	WRANGLER
Catholic about to practise set of beliefs	CREDO
Clumsy model sat for Rembrandt's first great painting	OLDMASTER
Cowboy's money put on a jumper	BUCKAROO
Crook caught at end of Ramadan in Asian sultanate	CONMAN
Dealer charged outside church taken in by cops	MERCHANT
Deserve to operate as a dockside worker	STEVEDORE
Drink from California and Virginia	CAVA
EU slang involved in a Catholic prayer	ANGELUS
Extremely suggestive text sent to musicians	SEXTET
Fibre taken from new sails	SISAL
First-class seminar on one chapter	CLASSIC
Fish swallowing large lump of earth	CLOD
Head of sport leaving great magazine	COMIC
Head of urology given endlessly stretchy tool	UTENSIL
Hornby's construction system missing no place in Saudi Arabia	MECCA
Impresario slowly taking in capital	OSLO
Informers with partners impounding ship	NARKS
Maggot first in beef to turn	BOT
Millions leaving real snowmen to melt in US city	NEWORLEANS
Nudity abroad is out of order	UNTIDY
Old horse's kick	HACK
Riddles about Pluto absorbing artist	CHARADES
Scotsman and journalist together working initially in a part of Greece	MACEDONIA
Silver coin in tin belonging to someone from Barcelona?	CATALAN
Snigger about raised surface of biscuit	GINGERSNAP
Southern sailors going north catch first of piranha fish	SPRATS
Spanish poet coming from Mallorca	LORCA