The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,760 - Mar 5 2019 Crossword Answer

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,760 - Mar 5 2019 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Player catching a target with smooth stone	SANDRABULLOCK
Put in angle — in briefly?	FADDISH
Ridiculously bad cabinet minister ultimately a boring tool	BRACE
See 15	VERSACE
See 24	LEADSOM
See 3	ANDBIT
See 8	ALERT
Sentence perhaps key, last of many by writer	PENALTY
Some criminal, in earnest, going straight	LINEAR
Star group written about in contemporary literature	LYRA
Sudden pain working for plant	SNAPDRAGON
Tories all repent, not half floundering — look away, if you don't want to know!	SPOILER
Tory with top story thus appearing in many papers	ANDREA
Were a couple old-fashioned?	DATED

Clues	Answers
'Dress in a state', declares expert fashion designer	DONATELLA
Article secured by French detectives — for a tanner?	GALLICACID
Awfully clean on top of table, surgeon's knife	LANCET
Balls move from side to side after Tottenham taking the lead?	TWADDLE
Container in mind for rifle	CARBINE
Creole tune originally played as synthesised music	ELECTRO
Embarrassing blunder by black­guard, fellow punching bore	PRATFALL
Ferry terminal in Felixstowe has shot ahead	TOTE
Grapes not available then? Fleeced?	OVINE
Hypothetical solution to sum never extremely diabolical	NOSTRUM
I slid coat off, relaxed after being pumped up?	DIASTOLIC
In a particular way, maybe the Guardian's saved in time	DAINTILY
Leader May frantic — something cooked up in advance	READYMEAL
Minute error initially in damaged travel pass	BUSTICKET
No matter when, party in the end consumed by self-loathing?	ANYTIME