The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,153 - Mar 24 2017 Crossword Answer

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,153 - Mar 24 2017 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Best solver embodying Holmes, initially	CHAMPION
Capital given stick by artist	RABAT
Conclusion of narrative in unfolding story, a world of possibilities?	OYSTER
Copy walls in southern part of church	APSE
David was his second outstanding challenge, I suspect	MICHELANGELO
Deliver position that's autonomous	FREESTANDING
Downtrodden thing in the way, a solver	SCARPETTA
Eliciting a yawn perhaps as beginning to nod, rip undies off	UNINSPIRED
Ending in ignorance, solver finds god in the dark	EREBUS
Eventual consumer always touring state in Midwest America	ENDUSER
Gold, auric edges in pen containing a metalloid	BORACIC
Groups of bones in this ratio passed to the left	TARSI
In general, violin required for solver	LESTRADE
It suggests I step on virgin snow	OFFPISTE
Last of money on account invested in reminder to put on his evacuated bloomers	HYACINTHS

Clues	Answers
Like a rabbit, say, albeit modified in corporeal form	BOBTAILED
Lower seams burst as tight on both sides of tanga	SUBSTRATA
Piffle on a list	ROTA
Possibly toxic sanction well short	LETHAL
Relish decline	DIP
Scot, a head welcoming lecturer in religious education	ABERDONIAN
Solver a shade upset about Paul, ultimately, as writer	CHANDLER
Solver as pack member	SPADE
Solver left a bit	MORSEL
Solver, member of secret society	MASON
Sugar, perhaps, needing part, say, for complete payment	LUMPSUM
Tell tales about duke on starter of tempura being least fat	SPINDLIEST
Unseeing as a 25-letter alphabet, did you say?	EYELESS
Weed in pool	POT
Wood given pen to outline role of someone directly involved	FIRSTPARTY