The Guardian Cryptic puzzle clues 2025 Mar 18

• Athlete coming from rear in preliminaries (5) Crossword Clue
• Blue, rotten apricot or salmon? (3-6) Crossword Clue
• Chewing on something hard: golf ball? (8) Crossword Clue
• Cleo's killer beheaded on this spot in field (6) Crossword Clue
• Coolidge escapes catastrophe for peace (5) Crossword Clue
• Doctor issued cause of atrophy (6) Crossword Clue
• Figuratively, Olive Oyl, head Bialystok resident? (8) Crossword Clue
• Fixing craps game, I'm an employer of dirty tricks (5,8) Crossword Clue
• Forgoing competition, saving time, leaving no evidence (7,1,5) Crossword Clue
• Game canine evacuated, cutting cheese (6) Crossword Clue
• Green tea brewed for Joan of Arc when executed? (8) Crossword Clue
• Horny beast seen in much of Auld Sod (5) Crossword Clue
• Interest expressed by two sailors at sea, shelled fare (5,7) Crossword Clue
• It arrives after November and it's 13½ inches tall (5) Crossword Clue
• Not much money for pair of singers (5,4) Crossword Clue
• Odist's dance at church Crossword Clue
• Operatic villain, maybe little green man, one with big ears (6) Crossword Clue
• Penny, a migrant, healed bird (9) Crossword Clue
• Positive on location of closing parenthesis? (5,4) Crossword Clue
• Proposes factions come before Yank's holiday in report (4,5) Crossword Clue
• Removing cap, splash in mud where Oddfellows gather (5) Crossword Clue
• Section of Villanova, home to vaqueros (5) Crossword Clue
• Seek treasure perhaps in small island, shady place (5,4) Crossword Clue
• Stripped of crown, old King put back in King's birthplace (6) Crossword Clue
• Underworld hack rejected secretive body part (8) Crossword Clue
• Where Rick played softly, bit of solid gold (5,3) Crossword Clue
• Women covering courts to show sports logos (8) Crossword Clue
• Worry former partner with messy separation (12) Crossword Clue