The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2023 11 20

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Abandons all hope in a spider's web DESPAIRS
Christmas dinners have no starter for old prison officers TURNKEYS
Come across an equal in audition APPEAR
Dignified meeting of lovers under superbly elegant covers SEDATE
Element found in a cholesterol-reducing drug and vitamin ASTATINE
Gaining ranking after draw is announced SUCCEEDING
Intoxicated and given to be overbearing HIGHHANDED
Listener in tears hits back REARENDS
Old cronies abandoned leader and fell into disarray SENIOR
Pessimistic, for example, in domestic surroundings NEGATIVE
Protect and toughen around top of skull INSURE
Realise rubbish left out is not so problematic EASIER
Shelled facility is twisted and sloping ITALIC
They learn choral arrangement in two seconds SCHOLARS
What should be taken if wise man turns up after party? DOSAGE
AUDACITY TEMERITY
Cattle cross-breed BEEFALO
CLOCK, SAY TIMER
SMALL STONE PEBBLE
TEACHING SESSION TUTORIAL
FIGURE OF SPEECH TROPE
HORSE-DRAWN VEHICLE CHARIOT
TUBULAR PASTA MACARONI
MUSICAL WORK OPUS
OMIT SKIP
FORCED IMPELLED
REMOVAL EXTRACTION
SUFFUSE PERVADE
PALINDROMIC GERMAN NAME OTTO
Ever more rapidly EXPONENTIALLY
From Douglas, say MANX
Port of ancient Egypt ALEXANDRIA
Unit of magnetic flux density – car brand TESLA
Written order for payment CHEQUE
A pair of bishops at scripture, one wearing a mitre perhaps ABBOT
After tea say took charge of games as coach perhaps TRANSPORT
Angry pub scene results in hail of missiles BARRAGE
Arrangements one may be reduced to RANKS
Coming to see one's vocation CALLING
Directed media to reform AIMED
Gangster carrying gun round, warning to get out FIREALARM
Had been to take boat trip for Christmas cheer WASSAIL
Instrument made in red and orange, strangely REEDORGAN
Lack of two principal characters ruining scene ABSENCE
Long lost texts found mixed up in local addresses DEADSEASCROLLS
More inquisitive about one getting extra rowdy NOISIER
Pretended son played badly SHAMMED
Run a short fiddle in cases of meat RAVIOLI
Secure dog perhaps in vehicle LANDROVER
Subversion headed off in issue of book EDITION
Thin wrapping can frustrate TINFOIL
Wife on horse, as it were, has to wrap up SWADDLE