The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2023 09 18

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Dried rose cooked as an addition to main course SIDEORDER
WATER VAPOUR STEAM
STICKS UP FOR SUPERIOR SMUG
Vetted CHECKED
State service MASS
Abandoned pipe not mine OPENPIT
Become defensive when told to start eating ... DIGIN
Country road ran randomly ANDORRA
Criticise extremely idiotic hysteria PANIC
Guide for riverside in Italy POINTER
Historical centre of holy study OLDEN
Specialist language used to describe advance in painting? ARGOT
Made more fit for purpose ADAPTED
Most prissy PRIMMEST
Shish or doner, say KEBAB
Accomplished lines about a comprehensive OVERALL
VLADIMIR ILYICH ULYANOV, D. 1924 LENIN
LEGAL PROCEEDING LAWSUIT
Fair's awkward situation: no parking LIGHT
Feel dizzy taking diamonds, say, for beachwear SWIMSUIT
Implacable insensitive heartless sexual partner DEADLY
TROGLODYTE CAVEDWELLER
Newspaper 'X'? TIMES
Umlaut scrawled over man's name; accept it or else! ULTIMATUM
US state split by ex-monarch's notary SCRIVENER
WILD PARTY ORGY
SMALL BORDER PLANT SEDGE
Gamete OVUM
FOLLOWER OF HAILE SELASSIE RASTAFARIAN
Upsetting part of sermon evoked rancour VENOM
Sought to circulate around river's low points TROUGHS
Finished following fine trip ALLOVER
PLUMP PODGY
Symbolic 5 includes guitar riff FIGURATIVE
Detailed description of small muscle SPEC
Drumming sound coming from grass on a plot RATAPLAN
Ostentatious as kids in a puddle? SPLASHY
Brief and intensive training CRASHCOURSE
Settled on entering working party SQUARED
Significant base in Gulf conflict MEANINGFUL
Cutting head of weed off when growing AXING
Conviction for injecting double energy into high explosive TENET
European football team abroad clear end by half-time anderlecht
High grade olive oil EXTRAVIRGIN
Choked elongated fish perished GARROTTED
Exercise expected to captivate eager teacher PEDAGOGUE
Loss, if York houses become fixed OSSIFY
Versace, not busy, dropping round to see writer CERVANTES
Occasionally stern solicitor dispatched SENTOUT
America's holding of heaven-bound heavenly objects UFOS
Turn over in one's mind COGITATE
Player needing second income source when promise broken SEMIPRO
Drop back to keep seat warm? LAGBEHIND
Anniversary bash outside eastern entrance out of control TERCENTENARY
Matches squeal when lit EQUALS
... a biscuit red head produced GINGERNUT
Embittered expert judged to have stolen book ACERBATED
Climbing plant — as I'm Celt (anag) CLEMATIS
Feet (informal) — Del and Rodney? TROTTERS
Performed turn on ends of rickety stool, being two-toed DIDACTYL