The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,889 - Aug 2 2019

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Clues Answers
'Hang around, girl!', we say, in period of inactivity STASIS
Answer to waterworks problem? I'd cure it, possibly DIURETIC
Attempts to restrict naughty lesbians TRIBADES
Buy a biography? Do something more interesting! GETALIFE
Dependent on a number of elements!!! ... MULTIFACTORIAL
Ease of provision FACILITY
English team facing shoot-out ultimately making this? EXIT
Fashion again using nasty polyester, not half poor RESTYLE
Freakish mare, the pet that has seven feet HEPTAMETER
Gardener's feature in September to April months in Welsh location GROWER
Headgear for big characters CAPS
Holiday region may be conjured up in ... in a seabird's call BALEARICISLANDS
Holy group? Such may be looking to the skies PILOT
Little boxes? SAPLINGS
Clues Answers
Mark gets caught, snitch in school SCRATCH
Maybe patches up Oxford's medieval road surface? COBBLES
Not all of you serve an exploitative type USER
One skilled in words banishing guilt and sin LINGUIST
One's snapped after being asked to do this WATCHTHEBIRDIE
Penalty on account of bad ref I oft rue FORFEITURE
Queen, but not our Queen, is someone of original Finnish stock ESTH
Ruddy good place for writer to produce a detective story? ASTUDYINSCARLET
Special unit hides computer program in footwear! SABOTS
Time's against jockeys making gallops TANTIVIES
Tricks of one who proved Fermat's last theorem WILES
Unhappy lord outside Parliament finally gives indication of imminent departure BLUEPETER
Unsophisticated, seeing unex­pected creature turning up in lake LOTECH
Women's work in underground river in Wales DISTAFF