The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,177 - Apr 20 2017

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Clues Answers
A bird, dropping one animal, returned diving equipment AQUALUNG
Baffle with incomplete limb STUMP
Be thrifty and move on time BUD
Be useful to island engulfed by reflux of magma AVAIL
Disagree about American electrical apparatus DIFFUSER
District capital's hospital PARISH
Eels prove slippery and fail to rise OVERSLEEP
Entrance friend eating golden treacle to begin with PORTAL
Escape from 5, getting A & E confused GETAWAY
Folk band turned into premier ethnographic exhibit, for starters PEOPLE
Important person's documentation found in here PRESIDENT
Like a great stylist Puritans love madly PROUSTIAN
Loud, dangerous and full of fun FRISKY
Novelist about to infiltrate some DNA GREENE
Odoriferous plant secures second trick RUSE
Philosopher placing article amid pieces of music BARTHES
Clues Answers
Promise to put piano on shelf PLEDGE
Requiring little effort to be relaxed EASY
Rule out piece of Chopin, say, covering his head PRECLUDE
Say no to iron getting turned into 11 REF
See 16 GET
See 17 USE
Set about 30 8 of 18 3? STRUMPET
Slow down born libertine BRAKE
Snake's exhausted, holding soldiers back SERPENT
Squirrel's introduction to nut curtailed by fish SALMON
True vice half-destroyed, surprisingly, by its opposite VIRTUE
Unconvincing verdict on reorganisation CONTRIVED
Unrefined blades in church COARSE
Upend fountain erected around the beginning of November INVERT
Virtuosic old city set in Spanish coast BRAVURA
Western sultanate's frailty, according to Hamlet WOMAN