The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,599 - Aug 27 2018 Crossword Answer

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,599 - Aug 27 2018 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Number 4 scores with a boundary	EIGHTYSIX
One writing grand, fine novel — one with cutting edge	PENKNIFE
Politician into initially inept football team? They're getting better	IMPROVERS
Region's flora and fauna in book by Greek character	BIOTA
Regularly looks at TV series	LOST
See 14	PARADISE
See 21	TATE
Side finally leading game — having changed side, won again	REGAINED
Some wind from bared US bums	OBOE
Steal from Polish characters drunk on flight after vacation	SHOPLIFT
Stones' No 1, covered by Prince	HAIL
Team playing in China	MATE
Tesla faults annoying children?	TERRORS
Wherein one gets stoned — awful dump, I gathered	OPIUMDEN
Winter sportsmen not right as weather forecasters?	SKIES

Clues	Answers
Almost hit daughter coming out of one's shower?	CLOUD
Commotion behind the Guardian	RUMPUS
Credit Leavers? No question, they're animals to US	CRITTERS
Doctor reveals more than 2 or 3?	SEVERAL
Explicit communication by film group	SEXTET
From earliest times, the odd vampire left behind one blood group	PRIMAEVAL
Here Norse gods need a second pullover	ASGARD
Idiot box broadcast ideas for fantastic state of happiness	FOOLS
Interval drinks? Event has bottles	SEVENTH
Joy needs to pull a man	HEAVEN
Keen to go quietly	WEEP
Lacking humour, though mostly funny	WITHOUT
Like anteaters and armadillos, say, heading off to back garden?	EDEN
No talking in Hanover Square	NINE
Not even Bale is Wales' last scorer	BLISS