The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,207 - May 25 2017 Crossword Answer

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,207 - May 25 2017 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
A small drink including minimum of table wine for starters	ANTIPASTI
Army rank rejected in case of gerund being a lexicographical oddity	GHOSTWORD
Avaricious type like godhead coming in earlier after greedy principal	GOLDDIGGER
Break in end of paragraph where N-Z found to include L	HALF
Channel slips by this?	GULLY
Cutting hedges optional — sense avoiding the thorny bits?	SELECTIVE
Druggie into Jailhouse Rock	USER
Extreme agony among legation trained to embrace sport	INGROWING
Faith being questioned in party heading for office, amid dubious claims	ICONOCLASM
Free design smeared on grey	DISENGAGED
Having scratched bottom, chance to embrace scent around rear of khazi, causing inflammation of nose	RHINITIS
Label outlining conclusion of anal pedant	STICKLER
Long canine in Dracula, I guess, as long when oddly shaped?	SAUSAGEDOG
Man bit arm	PIECE
Man of God in Ireland, eg reformed chief executive	DIRECTORGENERAL

Clues	Answers
Mistake reporting Italian river in Bangkok?	TYPO
More war-wounded, number hard to forget?	EARWORM
Salts with it in boxes	CITRATES
Scrub backs in the lower area, various vertebrae	ERASE
See 14	TOENAIL
See 23	TERM
See 25	HEARING
Slowly drain English river and Irish county	WEARDOWN
Small group covering article in soil, turned over	TRIAD
Specialist with bat or jemmy, perhaps?	OPENER
Suspicion surrounding Beethoven's Ninth in electronic music	TRANCE
Thespian, one supporting someone with a ladder	JACOBI
Utter fool to get help	SUCCOUR
Weird seeing something brown in blue	SPOOKY