The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2020 02 19

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Pious platitudes — jargon CANT
PARTIALLY CARBONISED VEGETABLE MATTER SATURATED WITH WATER PEAT
Merrymaking composer pens the ultimate in music, reject­ing secure articles BACCHANALIAN
ABOUT MARRIAGE, WHEN IT TURNS BELLIGERENT MARTIAL
FRINGE EDGE
Coat thinly with a metal — let percolate (anag) ELECTROPLATE
Long live the Emperor of Zanzibar, unclothed and dancing BANZAI
ADMIT CONCEDE
A FLOOR COVERING LINOLEUM
FERTILE FECUND
CHRISTMAS DRINK EGGNOG
SECOND BOOK OF THE OLD TESTAMENT EXODUS
SEE 6 DUCTS
SPY AGENT
What could make Cupid easily embarrassed PUDIC
TRAITOROUS COLLABORATOR QUISLING
POPE'S AMBASSADOR NUNCIO
INDIAN OR ARCTIC? OCEAN
(IN BIOLOGY) SERIES OF CHANGES IN FORM THAT AN ORGANISM UNDERGOES LIFECYCLE
DICTIONARY COMPILATION LEXICOGRAPHY
PAINT WITH SLIGHT SHEEN EGGSHELL
HARVARD, YALE AND SIX OTHER PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES IVYLEAGUE
Not quite have time to cover puzzles, essentially reversing instruction MITZVAH
GRISLY GORY
Bothered bit by bit, as they say FAZED
SEE 12 GRIT
PARASOL SUNSHADE
PERSUADED TO JOIN ROPEDIN
TRYING TOO OBVIOUSLY TO SEEM INTELLIGENT CLEVERCLEVER
HERBS IN A SMALL BAG USED IN COOKING BOUQUETGARNI
Brought up breakfast cereal, bypassing the beginning of stomach and small intestine ILEUM
IS MONET MISREPRESENTED IN TINY BUT FUNDAMENTAL MATTER? QUESTIONMARK
CONSIDER PURPOSEFUL SHOP REPRIMAND DELIBERATE
DESOLATE NATURE'S IN EVOLUTION SATURNINE
PARKER COOKED HOT FISH OUTSIDE DOROTHY
STRONGLY ANGER UNIONISTS, BEING ENTHUSIASTIC FIREDUP
FORTITUDE MAY BE NEEDED IN READINESS FOR REAL SNOW AND ICE TRUE
EXCEPTIONAL GRANT AND A FOURTH ARMED MAN? DARTAGNAN
HUMANITARIAN ORGANISATION'S DRIVER POSSIBLY GOING ROUND IN CIRCLES ROTARYCLUB
UNATTENDED VEHICLE'S BROKEN INTO IN PARIS: A DAMAGED FORD UNCAREDFOR
SNOB HOUSES CLOSED, ONLY HALF OCCUPIED OBSESSED
FROM THE TIME OF ROME, IT TOOK YEARS TO START WITH HONESTY SINCERITY
MAY BE EVEN TRUE OF SEX VENEREAL
WRITE DOWN CURSE FOR SPOONER'S NAGS HENPECKS
PART OF VENEZUELA DUE FOR UPRISING, LIKE MOST OF EUROPE ONCE FEUDAL
WEAPON OF RACISM (LOST WITHOUT IT) SCIMITAR
FIRST IN COLD BLAST TO BECOME AGITATED DISTRAUGHT
IRON ROD UPON A HAT FEDORA
BRIEF SCRIPT, YET EVENLY READ RECITE
ONE LEFT RUSTICATED ARRANGEMENT OF FLOWERS IN GRIEF TEAR
IN A KIND OF MIRACLE, THEY SAY YOU ARE FICKLE MERCURIAL
REDEEM MYSELF, PARTLY TO GET AN AWARD EMMY