The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,727 - Jan 25 2019 Crossword Answer

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,727 - Jan 25 2019 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Nurse keeps Rex and me, an avant-gardist	TRENDSETTER
Prevents Bill making wine	BARSAC
Ruddy girl's relieved	FLORID
Silly fool is to slip on island	DONKEY
Something soothing uttered in royal retreat	BALMORAL
Team cuts lease for occupier	RESIDENT
Thought to be against partiality of the left	CONSIDERED
Unfaithful lover is scared off	CRESSIDA
Wind down temper when the game is safe	CLOSESEASON
Winger is an Oxford player with courage	BLUEBOTTLE
Women confuse totter	WADDLE
Writer is to wallow in drink	TROLLOPE
Wrongly aspire to approbation	PRAISE

Clues	Answers
Beetle to traumatise backward scholar	SCARAB
Being upset, Kitty's done with the night's billet	STOPOVER
Charlie inclines to abdominal pain	CRAMPS
Does one river meet another?	DEER
Genial criminal in west London	EALING
Great power of representative in republic	EMPIRE
Head eats a new type of savoury	CANAPE
Ignored a change of material	ORGANDIE
Illicit drugs found in storage area	GEAR
Insecurity makes director fret	DANGER
Make a mistake with commission	ERRAND
Mean to entertain Indian poet	PINDAR
Mortar used for levelling a long passage	SCREED