The Guardian 2023 10 04 - Crossword Answers

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

UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT

DOLE

SUDDEN DESIRE

WHIM

Somehow isn't leader, last in marches to depart?

TAILENDER

England batter sure to be restricted and unable to blossom?

ROOTBOUND

DEBAUCHED PARTY

ORGY

Travelled over water, getting kicked

PUNTED