The Guardian 2020 04 09 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
START	OUTSET
Was inclined to absorb one basic subject?	LEARNT
FINNISH CAPITAL	HELSINKI
Leather from nanny or billy?	GOATSKIN
SEE 2	PARLIAMENT
TREE PROVIDING CANADA'S NATIONAL EMBLEM	MAPLE
Food constituents employees mostly rejected	FATS
Shipment from A to B	TRANSIT
SWIMMING STYLE	BREASTSTROKE
APPLY WATER TO CUT FLOWERS	SPRAY
SHORT COAT	TUNIC
STROKE GENTLY	CARESS
Facts surrounding past newspaper scandal that's familiar in SF?	GOLDENGATE
SEE 6	POLICE
GAG JOURNALIST'S INITIAL COPY	JAPE
PAGAN WITH 500 DEPRESSED TROOPS GOING UP GULLY?	INFIELDER
OBSESSIVE ELF IN FILM	PHOBIC
BLOODY FEMALE CONSTANTLY MAKING COMPLAINT	SCARLETFEVER
MISTAKES CATCHING QUISLING IN TIME	ERRATA
REMAINED SOBER ON AIR, WITH NO BACKSLIDING	STAYEDON
ENDURE LAMPOONERY, LOSING HEART IN THE END	LASTLY
PUB ON FIRE, ENGULFING END OF KITCHEN WHERE FOOD'S SERVED	SNACKBAR
HE ONCE DROVE A MEDIC BACK INTO JAIL	CABMAN
THRASH LATE ATTENDEE'S BOTTOM	PASTE
MP'S CAR I IMPOLITELY PRANGED	MILITARY
INSTANT CALLS BLOCKED BY NEW PM'S PREDECESSORS	MORNINGS
MEMBERS IN SUSPENSE WHEN RULING'S TRICKY?	HUNG
REPUBLICAN'S US RIVAL	DEMOCRAT
SINGER FROM ABBA IS TENOR? SOPRANO, SURPRISINGLY	BASSBARITONE
STICK ONE'S NOSE IN	INTRUDE
LAST NUDE SCULPTED WITH NO PARTICULAR RELISH	UNSALTED
DOMESTIC SERVANT NEEDED FOR MAIN SITE	HOMEPAGE
UNROMANTIC PAL SCREWED UP INTRODUCTORY NOTE	PLATONIC
STALWART TORY EARL SHUNNED BY CAMILLA AND HER OLD MAN, MISTAKENLY	HAROLDMACMILLAN
MAKE FUN OF WIFE'S PARTING BOOB	TWIT
CHERRY BRANDY	KIRSCH
DEFENDERS GREETED, SLOPING OFF FROM THE FRONT	BACKSWEPT
RELINQUISHED SET	LAIDDOWN
ADMONISH	REPROVE
Pudding — useless — Homer Simpson's kind of beer	DUFF
Logo — pattern	MOTIF
RECOGNISED LEADER IN SOME FIELD	GURU
LARGEST CITY IN SYRIA BEFORE THE MASSIVE DAMAGE OF THE CIVIL WAR	ALEPPO
DELIBERATELY HAVE NO CONTACT WITH	SHUN
ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPREHEND	MINDBOGGLING
A NIGHT LIGHT?	STAR
SOVIET SATELLITE, LAUNCHED 1957	SPUTNIK
DECEPTIVELY PLEASING	SPECIOUS
STYLE OF ROBBERY THROUGH A BROKEN DISPLAY WINDOW	SMASHANDGRAB
AUTHOR OF THE MASTER BUILDER, D. 1906	IBSEN
KIND OF FINANCIAL PROPOSAL WITH NO REALISTIC CHANCE OF SUCCESS	GETRICHQUICK

START

OUTSET

Was inclined to absorb one basic subject?

LEARNT

FINNISH CAPITAL

HELSINKI

Leather from nanny or billy?

GOATSKIN

SEE 2

PARLIAMENT

TREE PROVIDING CANADA'S NATIONAL EMBLEM

MAPLE