The Guardian - Quiptic crossword No 1,269 - Mar 18 2024

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Clues Answers
Advanced, complex maths generating complaint ASTHMA
Bands take LSD with energy in empty stadiums STRIPES
Brighton and Hove Albion FC mostly play in Russia THESEAGULL
Chinese criminal gang admitting racket around West Indian island TRINIDAD
Crazy Tea Party figure forced to accept that crooked Republican MADHATTER
Declared an FBI agent protects business AFFIRMED
Detective Sergeant, drinking more rum, walks unsteadily DODDERS
Disaster affected cat, dog and fox losing tail ACTOFGOD
Fierceness shown by assertive he-men? Certainly! VEHEMENCE
Fortified wine's knocked back, in a bad mood STROP
France's very old-fashioned king, one invading others' lands TRESPASSER
Girls from Madrid, say, modified assertion SENORITAS
Hairdo Doctor Faustus has pinned back AFRO
Help for referees – it includes an alternative form VARIANT
Kind of coffee female hip-hop artist hasn't finished FRAPPE
Clues Answers
Little swimmers bit people from Warsaw, say TADPOLES
Massage Sally's back, which is a deep red RUBY
Menial worker taking pound from e.g. Tiger Woods GOFER
One's welcoming new name for pubs INNS
Pro drug smugglers getting signs of things to come FORERUNNERS
Religious education class mend their ways? REFORM
Rifle poorly held by knight's assistant PILLAGE
Saint, over a long period of time, is most judicious SAGEST
Settled how nun is dressed by Edward INHABITED
Smart leader of The Police STING
Split up clocks, perhaps – they don't always work PARTTIMERS
Starters of pork after lazily eating pasty PALE
Strange metaphors in Timon of Athens, say MISANTHROPE
Tactics in games start going wrong STRATAGEMS
You heard dram's swallowed hot, not cool UNHIP