The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 31st March 2022

There are 15 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 31st March 2022. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 7:	Not all of eighteenth on our seventeenth level
AAcross 8:	See 12
AAcross 9:	Perhaps describing bolts no longer stuck fast?
AAcross 10:	See 9
AAcross 12:	Country again bitter about quarantining rules, primarily
AAcross 13:	See 19	INTHEPAN
AAcross 15:	See 20
AAcross 16:	US city recalled Hindu festivals
AAcross 17:	See 16 down
AAcross 18:	Avoidance of reality with Conservative in impasse, unfortunately
AAcross 20:	Every one of them as yet untamed, about a hundred feral animals
AAcross 21:	Group stealing jewel and cheap regalia finally unlocked crown?	BALDPATCH
AAcross 22:	Little sound that echoes just the same?
AAcross 24:	Food is popular: stick around
AAcross 25:	See 9
DDown 1:	Slough's roundabout, one in desert
DDown 2:	Out of bounds, perhaps, drive ultimately hooked? Totally incompetent!
DDown 3:	Thrash metal about right for band
DDown 4:	Music, say, rubbish? I'm not sure, for jazz pianist
DDown 5:	Ring a bell, or play the piano?
DDown 6:	A little crack in gingerbread man
DDown 11:	Volume turned up after seabird bites head of injured auk
DDown 12:	See 21
DDown 14:	Put to practical use — like some fruit?
DDown 16:	Equipment with long cord bound to catch fish
DDown 17:	Really poor (or not unorthodox) training method
DDown 19:	Briefly hot, 9 25 10, is it?	AFLASH
DDown 20:	See 5	ACHORD
DDown 21:	Depressed squealer's country music
DDown 23:	See 7