The Guardian - Cryptic - Mar 1 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,693 - Mar 1 2022 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
Armadillo's articulated body marking	TATOU
Award Savage a very low mark for wit	OSCARWILDE
Basic failure to meet storytelling quota?	UNDERLYING
Brief from foreign leader spreading fake news	FLYING
Class relied on reform to get aircraft squadrons in France	ESCADRILLES
Current undergarment for a woman lacks opening	EDDY
Disease has politician stretched out flat in bed	COMPLAINT
Do the same as prisoner with criminal record	CONFORM
European bridge: one should start leading hearts	SPANISH
Fail to qualify? Don't go falling into the canal!	MISSTHECUT
German region we backed way before failure, some might say	WESTPHALIA
Getting people to talk in a form of Inuit is nothing, without question	INQUISITION
In miniature, because an instrument	REBEC
In revolt, mean and tense	UPTIGHT
Last of air removed from high cloud and carbon injected as entertainment	CIRCUS
Leave wrapping right round bird	PARROT
Note name assumed by wild alpine plant	PERENNIAL
Old military leader is well (sadly not internally)	MONTY
Removes barriers as protection from the enemy	DEFENCES
Sailor's girlfriend with yen to yield to independence — the virgin kind?	OLIVEOIL
Seaside feature: sex initiation plus nude swimming	SANDDUNE
Set your sights on a state-backed scholarly environment	ACADEMIA
Shaker town holding back migration	TREK
Southern French town's excuse, when independence lost	ALBI
Sporting grannie almost won National	NORWEGIAN
Street seller's recipe involved with rice?	CRIER
Tending to shake, a bit like a flight case?	QUIVERISH
They put the squeeze on Hypnos, cast outside Troy	PYTHONS
Unimportant person describing a weak wine	NOBODY
Very numb	DEAD