The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,760 - Mar 5 2019

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Clues Answers
'Dress in a state', declares expert fashion designer DONATELLA
Article secured by French detectives — for a tanner? GALLICACID
Awfully clean on top of table, surgeon's knife LANCET
Balls move from side to side after Tottenham taking the lead? TWADDLE
Container in mind for rifle CARBINE
Creole tune originally played as synthesised music ELECTRO
Embarrassing blunder by black­guard, fellow punching bore PRATFALL
Ferry terminal in Felixstowe has shot ahead TOTE
Grapes not available then? Fleeced? OVINE
Hypothetical solution to sum never extremely diabolical NOSTRUM
I slid coat off, relaxed after being pumped up? DIASTOLIC
In a particular way, maybe the Guardian's saved in time DAINTILY
Leader May frantic — something cooked up in advance READYMEAL
Minute error initially in damaged travel pass BUSTICKET
No matter when, party in the end consumed by self-loathing? ANYTIME
Clues Answers
Player catching a target with smooth stone SANDRABULLOCK
Put in angle — in briefly? FADDISH
Ridiculously bad cabinet minister ultimately a boring tool BRACE
See 15 VERSACE
See 24 LEADSOM
See 3 ANDBIT
See 8 ALERT
Sentence perhaps key, last of many by writer PENALTY
Some criminal, in earnest, going straight LINEAR
Star group written about in contemporary literature LYRA
Sudden pain working for plant SNAPDRAGON
Tories all repent, not half floundering — look away, if you don't want to know! SPOILER
Tory with top story thus appearing in many papers ANDREA
Were a couple old-fashioned? DATED