Here are the answers to The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword puzzles Friday July 29 2016.

18th-century dance – GAVOTTE
Anti-establishment figure – REBEL

Becomes less intense – ABATES
Bolero composer, d. 1937 – RAVEL
Collapse – BURST
Dee, Exe or Wye, say – RIVER
Difficult — intricate – KNOTTY
Drank – IMBIBED
Emotionally dependent – CLINGY
Eyed lustfully – OGLED
Flowering – INBLOOM
Hoity-toity – LADIDA
Hostelries – TAVERNS
Ignites – LIGHTS
Obtains by coercion – EXTORTS
Peninsula where Birkenhead is situated – WIRRAL
Punctuation mark – COLON
Reflector in the road – CATSEYE

Reminder that death is inevitable (Latin) – MEMENTOMORI
Rich sweet cake – TORTE
Short song-like poems – LYRICS
Spatter liquid about – SPLASH
Stop doing that! – GIVEITAREST
Strong yellow colour – LEMON
Take in again – READMIT
Uninhabited islet 290 miles west of Scotland – ROCKALL