The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,409 - Jan 18 2018

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After scratching of head, nothing penned by composer is a disappointment FAILURE
Brahms and Liszt in the spotlight LITUP
Composer is beyond preposterous TALLIS
Composer on the case of correct decision VERDICT
Composer's name for composer WEBERN
Fiddle not half inspiring difficult child — that's the effect of music! VIBRATO
For example, prepare an Ottoman composer to invade revolutionary Peru UPHOLSTER
Glass one may be dropping? TUMBLER
Grand work of Elgar, an exercise in music LARGE
Group has little time to invest in composer BATCH
Has that lady visited an illicit bar? SHEBEEN
In flaming, fire disturbed ROUSTED
Instead, a general saying ADAGE
Known leaders in baseball league, one entering competition after an upset PUBLIC
Late actor has shifted tree to the left SHARIF
Lice high on combination of acid and alcohol in cheese LEICESTER
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Much bloodshed as one composer almost crushed by another CARNAGE
New Testament suggested the coolest of times? MIDWINTER
Old man after a drop of cream with high tea CUPPA
One offering a cut, as composer BARBER
Out of it, put to death STONED
Ravel, last of wet fish TANGLE
Scarcely any absent in curfew, unlike degenerate less fortunate UNLUCKIER
See 11 SCALE
She abandons playwright after a write-up, an all-time low NADIR
Show remorse having put mint in sage I chopped up APOLOGISE
Sit alongside robin with huge bats NEIGHBOUR
They've got something worse to broadcast about capital in Nairobi OWNERS
Those who polish railway apparatus BUFFERS
Tuesday 7th of September off — 8th of September past it then? USEBYDATE
Ultimately flat, instrument that's sharp THORN
Way of acting silly with feet in a pickle LIFESTYLE