The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 5th March 2019

There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 5th March 2019. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Container in mind for rifle
AAcross 5:	Put in angle — in briefly?
AAcross 10:	Star group written about in contemporary literature
AAcross 11:	Sudden pain working for plant
AAcross 12:	Some criminal, in earnest, going straight
AAcross 13:	In a particular way, maybe the Guardian's saved in time
AAcross 14:	Leader May frantic — something cooked up in advance	READYMEAL
AAcross 16:	See 8
AAcross 17:	Grapes not available then? Fleeced?
AAcross 19:	Minute error initially in damaged travel pass
AAcross 23:	Embarrassing blunder by blackguard, fellow punching bore
AAcross 24:	Tory with top story thus appearing in many papers	ANDREA
AAcross 26:	Article secured by French detectives — for a tanner?
AAcross 27:	Ferry terminal in Felixstowe has shot ahead
AAcross 28:	Sentence perhaps key, last of many by writer
AAcross 29:	See 24	LEADSOM
DDown 2:	No matter when, party in the end consumed by self-loathing?
DDown 3:	Ridiculously bad cabinet minister ultimately a boring tool
DDown 4:	Hypothetical solution to sum never extremely diabolical
DDown 6:	See 3	ANDBIT
DDown 7:	I slid coat off, relaxed after being pumped up?
DDown 8:	Tories all repent, not half floundering — look away, if you don't want to know!
DDown 9:	Player catching a target with smooth stone	SANDRABULLOCK
DDown 15:	'Dress in a state', declares expert fashion designer	DONATELLA
DDown 18:	See 15
DDown 20:	Balls move from side to side after Tottenham taking the lead?
DDown 21:	Creole tune originally played as synthesised music
DDown 22:	Awfully clean on top of table, surgeon's knife
DDown 25:	Were a couple old-fashioned?