The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2023 09 25

crossword answers
Clue Answer
DRUGGIE USER
Cut — meat CHOP
Convertible frequently held by red light SOFTTOP
Line showing high water level TIDEMARK
ARCTIC POLAR
Some hold refusal to be irritating ANNOY
Dancing rumba in shadows UMBRA
POISON, AS ARSENIC
Patchy dish unadorned PIEBALD
Control in chimney originally needed on top of church INFLUENCE
LOOK FOR SEEK
BEARING NORTH
DESSERT AFTERS
Brave page's favoured PLUCKY
Draft piece of writing by prisoner CONSCRIPT
Individuals go around old place PEOPLE
Information from nerd put back on shelf KNOWLEDGE
Unfit male's horrible rage FULMINATE
New word — ie Mongols (anag) NEOLOGISM
Winner's colour? GOLD
Check for bugs in room: it's a lottery SWEEP
Demonstration, a nuisance, about to go off PROTEST
Fixing drink in Scottish island? Good ARRANGING
Herald's up on one leg, out of control RAMPANT
Meeting two holding hands at bar ENCOUNTER
Spinning stick, first to break little bulb DISTAFF
Your lad misbehaving, Mary? OURLADY
Ready for Nigerian heretic to revert NAIRA
Determined detectives in action DECIDED
LIMITS BOUNDS
Food delivery service MEALSONWHEELS
English star left coat ENAMEL
Absorb popular joke, we hear INGEST
Art of journalists suppressing noise of pain PROWESS
Flash assistant SECOND
Before surgery, medic gives some medicine DROPS
Half-hearted floor cleaner is a misery MOPER
Criminal group missing in action having abducted American fellow MAFIA
Passable genealogy missing son DECENT
Underarm toiletry DEODORANT
The Dog Star, part of Canis Major SIRIUS
Her Nibs used to take a dip here INKWELL
Old man having part in conditional release PAROLE
Time to fight? ENEMY
Resist, as Indian state profits start to tumble GOAGAINST
IMMEASURABLY SMALL ATOMIC
Dish king and infant returned KEBAB
Presumably he doesn't mind being sacked at Christmas SANTA
Close lane, source of confusion for a special occasion CONEOFF
Take note of reasonable direction CLOCKWISE
Spread round a square in town MARGATE
RUINED GONETOTHEDOGS
Nerveless behaviour, if dragons are flying around SANGFROID
It's rotten when a religious scholar went in front ADDLED
12 up, astride a black horse ARABIAN
Decorate bride more elaborately EMBROIDER
Unpleasant correspondence HATEMAIL
Source of cod? FISHSHOP
Essential qualities NATURES
GENIALITY BONHOMIE
Stops creeps regularly entering crafts ARRESTS
Chide bachelor getting weak BLAME
LADDER RUN
Snort gram to get high and use violence STRONGARM