The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 29,042 - Apr 12 2023

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Clues Answers
'This war's over!' — that fake article by nuclear project MANHATTAN
../-./.../.--././-.-./-/---/.-. ? MORSE
Ask to sit POSE
Best clothes seen on TV? TOPGEAR
Chats with mate endlessly next to footballers' partners CHINWAGS
Cleaner tackles little boy's chamber BEDROOM
Could Solomon be a member of the Mafia? WISEGUY
Curse? He'll go red BLOODY
Drink in Wetherspoons, for example, 20% off CHAI
Essentially gifted and advanced LENT
For example, going back and forth grappling with cooking ingredient EGGWHITE
Fruity red and triple sec seen drunk in style DRESSSENSE
Guard's company SCREW
Letter only composed to inspire another YPSILON
Medical device for reading pet barcodes? CATSCANNER
Clues Answers
Mineral water finally on a table as fluid ALABASTER
Nothing good is postponed ONICE
Old server's corrupted — firm employed draws lines through OVERSCORES
One travelling down Amazon, perhaps DRIVER
Opening of cinema features parts of films CLIPS
Permissions for king put in jail with occasional access CLEARANCES
PIN number 1150? NAIL
PM once ignoring head of Treasury to protect Welsh woman and foreign nationals? RUSSIANS
Reliable Tory trading gold for iron oxide? TRUSTY
Sid's organ playing 'Stop' and 'Roundabout'? ROADSIGNS
Sophisticated magazine COSMOPOLITAN
Spooner's hirsute man in prayer HAILMARY
Start of 21 badly needs a wash, extremely dirty ASHWEDNESDAY
Veiled legend in grand finale ENDING
Wanting independence, instructs naughty pets in parts of church TRANSEPTS