The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2023 11 20

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