The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2023 10 04

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Somehow isn't leader, last in marches to depart? TAILENDER
SUDDEN DESIRE WHIM
UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT DOLE
England batter sure to be restricted and unable to blossom? ROOTBOUND
Passé OLDHAT
Girl brought up overlooking area in Dutch city BREDA
Travelled over water, getting kicked PUNTED
DEBAUCHED PARTY ORGY
Robin Hood's colour? LINCOLNGREEN
Cycle links BICYCLECHAIN
Elusive cat mum lost in pit CAVITY
Flower is squashed in time DAISY
Vagrant having minimum of food subsequently eating egg FLOATER
Those unwilling to accept new ideas OLDGUARD
Let oboes play like serpents? OBSOLETE
Lever journalist into China? PEDAL
Rodent seen in Nottingham's terrible HAMSTER
Trick female employed, making one puzzled CONFUSED
BECOME ONE LINKUP
REMOVE FROM OFFICE UNSEAT
Argentinian striker, b. 1987 MESSI
Nautical item is on top of vessel, not bottom CAPSTAN
Bit of a letter, final bit in rambling screed DESCENDER
Artistic support EASEL
Plant providing semiconducting material — mass turned out GERANIUM
Tennis — it is played in Chinese city TIENTSIN
LET OFF ABSOLVE
Kind of roulette RUSSIAN
I spy, for example GUESSINGGAME
MAKES FUN OF PARODIES
Fruit reported — heavy hanging masses PLUMBS
Surrounded foe finally in defeat BESET
Endures horrible son showing incivility RUDENESS
__ and Circumstance (Elgar's March) POMP
IMMERSE ENGULF
Class of apple EATER
Falsely accused prisoner — uncontrollable fury dies when one is released DREYFUS
Fish to be avoided — it's angry (anag) STINGRAY
This writer's nonsense is naughty IMPISH
STEEP MARINATE
Rodent — smart, eh? (anag) HAMSTER
Like inflamed viewer's false statement about reptile BLOODSHOT