The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,065 - Feb 25 2020 Crossword Answer

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,065 - Feb 25 2020 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Only the odd contrary characters suss out pitch	TOSS
Outsider is dying, feverish	LONGSHOT
Plotters regularly use such weapons	AXES
Preposterous list often added to with conviction?	CRIMINAL
Pronounced 'basic', as ship will be before sailing	CREWED
Rant and rave, as sacked gardener might?	LOSETHEPLOT
Riff-raff making unpleasant film	SCUM
See 22	RECORD
See 24	SEAMEN
See 4	SERGEANT
See 9	BUSINESS
Storyteller's rung up	LIAR
Struggle across line to finish	COMPLETE

Clues	Answers
A good outcome to queen's labour? Brilliant!	AGLITTER
Bright rising copper's temporarily given housing	LUCENT
Checked what monarch did, abandoning grand home	REINEDIN
Flag-carrying soldier resolved to clear surgeon	COLOUR
Four breaking oath joined up	CURSIVE
Fresh source of water first for annual purification?	SPRINGCLEAN
Greenery, at first a modest innovation in late Georgian streets	GASLIGHT
Grim time that husband's taken into consideration	THOUGHT
Illicit affairs of spymaster running major industry	MONKEY
Local runner joining army unit is no monarchist	REPUBLICAN
Long-haul workers from Manchester somehow getting the last word	MERCHANT
Name adopted by setter in a novel proves amusing	ENTERTAINS
Naturalist may study this 22 23 at end of a sentence	LIFEFORM