The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2024 02 20

crossword answers
Clue Answer
FRENCH POLICEMAN GENDARME
Inflict corporal punishment on kid, for example LEATHER
Passing white's soaring over grass ELAPSING
On-board scrubber? DECKHAND
It's not easy catching variety, American counterpart of 24 HARVARD
BUBBLY CHAMPERS
Snaps emerging branches SHOOTS
GREY AGED
FAIR COMELY
FLOW REGULATOR STOPCOCK
Insulation mineral, as shiny silicate MICA
Put out eggs – almost leave out scrambled OVULATE
Mark similar to 18, but higher APOSTROPHE
Teenage miscreant's 'award' ASBO
Maximally exposed, first covering up hole BLEAKEST
Like husband found in a fornicating situation? ABASHED
Tyrannical ruler found in previous answer, after all IVAN
WWII battle STALINGRAD
Add fatty stuff to heart of cabbage, say BUTTER
A point above 18 in game before final pass forward SEMICOLON
STY NOISE OINK
Sit on and across BESTRIDE
Ambassador's immersed in European matter in Greek city EPHESUS
Monarch displayed in museum – initially housed show in ground-floor extensions VERANDAHS
Minded after power is handed over PRESENTED
Kind of 18, or kind of blue OXFORD
Take it easy! SLOWDOWN
GIBBERISH MUMBOJUMBO
About to break down ONTHEBLINK
Start of tribute about stupid Italian poet TASSO
Loquacious type CHATTERBOX
DAINTY TWEE
Climates (anag.) CLEMATIS
HERB SAGE
Doesn't finish some panda food LEAVES
OPPOSITION SHADOW
CUMMERBUND, FOR EXAMPLE SASH
Fly like some insects, or bat FLUTTER
Invariably costly meal, it's said, extended by indefinite period LUNCHEON
LARGE WADER IBIS
Secure arms from Communist Russia TRUSS
FOOD IN REPAST IS ODDLY DEFICIENT EATS
Gorgeous and eye-catching STRIKING
Put in situation hard to get out of? Possibly, providing one red's OK SNOOKERED
CITY IN PAKISTAN LAHORE
Knockout fixture CUPTIE