The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2023 09 12

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Core of county police force not satisfied UNMET
Instrument for execution by strangulation once used in Spain GAROTTE
Reconsider second exercise over youngster getting upset BACKPEDAL
Investigator locates married American friends in Arab country OMBUDSMAN
Take time to get in close STEAL
Pirates' ensign JOLLYROGER
Group of touring performers TROUPE
BELOW UNDER
FOOD STORE LARDER
OF POOR QUALITY CHEAP
PORTABLE COMPUTER LAPTOP
Endeavour to capture contact linked to English betrayal TREACHERY
Spread discharge — it's all over now PASTEVENT
MILITARY BLOCKADE SIEGE
HERB OREGANO
THOROUGHFARE ROAD
BALDERDASH CLAPTRAP
PRE-PRANDIAL DRINK APERITIF
Medicine which has no physiological effect PLACEBO
Novelty sporting competition — arc cakes (anag) SACKRACE
Project for viewing — conceal from harm SCREEN
Stupefied (informal) DOPY
Artificial servant picked up after staff MANMADE
Case has one placed in clear folder? PATIENT
Current source of master's trendy interior MAINS
Desperate men head to addiction treatment METHADONE
Key type added on to register LATCH
Lure agency worker to join top table TEMPT
Material name added to charge LINEN
Plenty in favour of merger PROFUSION
Salvage extremely rare celestial object RECLAIM
Sit up after a tale from him, perhaps AESOP
Two insects left out? That's powerful BEEFY
French fabulist, d. 1695 LAFONTAINE
Canada's second largest city MONTREAL
Blonde fairy tale protagonist GOLDILOCKS
WIND INSTRUMENT TUBA
Air sounds freaked out such old fogeys DINOSAURS
Pools found on embankment at historic conference site POTSDAM
Piece in cited literature about accent TILDE
Communication equipment created by worker group HANDSET