The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,772 - Mar 19 2019 Crossword Answer

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,772 - Mar 19 2019 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
One has bras etc in drawer!	DRAGQUEEN
One who buys key American book by King	CUSTOMER
Opposed to opening, dropping, opening, dropping?	LOSING
Passage from a booklet	EXTRACT
Potentially constituent narrative ultimately lost for reader	LECTOR
Sang loudly with band, due to being drunk	BELTEDOUT
She jointly made Columbus sail and able to roam	ISABELLA
Stir up novel so it ends in twist	BLEND
Stories in books	ACCOUNTS
Study follows paperback's plot	GARDEN
To want not a cent? Weird this is in both the US and Canada	LAKEERIE
Top pieces of literature in bookcases, recording and retelling yarns	LIBRARY
Type of writing of period seen regularly	PROSE
Vegetable in book? Radish?	OKRA

Clues	Answers
'Mystery novel' in quotes	QUESTION
Book about gravity's reach in translation	CHARGE
Call round	SHOUT
Capital writer, initially keen to meet aristocrat, loses head and gets kiss after a month	KARLMARX
Continuations of story speak of search for sources of water	SEQUELS
Cutlet of muscle core, chopped thin, zebra's head and veal, even	SCHNITZEL
Despondent about you in France, stuck with tariff and unable to take any more	SATURATED
Epistolary novel: badly written letters in yarns? I opt out (this was pre-GCSE)	OLEVEL
Genius of story books	TALENT
Habitat of Tasmanian devil, evolving with limited parts lost	SAVANNA
Learn from a book: note, a hardback	READ
Note my oddly original word	ETYMON
Old penny dreadful seen as impenetrable	DENSE
Old story offers a clue to boot	LEGEND