The Guardian 2023 11 20 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Secure dog perhaps in vehicle	LANDROVER
After tea say took charge of games as coach perhaps	TRANSPORT
Pretended son played badly	SHAMMED
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
Old cronies abandoned leader and fell into disarray	SENIOR
Christmas dinners have no starter for old prison officers	TURNKEYS
Unit of magnetic flux density – car brand	TESLA
Run a short fiddle in cases of meat	RAVIOLI
They learn choral arrangement in two seconds	SCHOLARS
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
Shelled facility is twisted and sloping	ITALIC
Arrangements one may be reduced to	RANKS
Angry pub scene results in hail of missiles	BARRAGE
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
A pair of bishops at scripture, one wearing a mitre perhaps	ABBOT
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
AUDACITY	TEMERITY
TUBULAR PASTA	MACARONI
Gaining ranking after draw is announced	SUCCEEDING
Directed media to reform	AIMED
Thin wrapping can frustrate	TINFOIL
FORCED	IMPELLED
Realise rubbish left out is not so problematic	EASIER
Cattle cross-breed	BEEFALO
Ever more rapidly	EXPONENTIALLY
Abandons all hope in a spider's web	DESPAIRS
More inquisitive about one getting extra rowdy	NOISIER
Pessimistic, for example, in domestic surroundings	NEGATIVE
Long lost texts found mixed up in local addresses	DEADSEASCROLLS
Written order for payment	CHEQUE
Listener in tears hits back	REARENDS
Wife on horse, as it were, has to wrap up	SWADDLE
Gangster carrying gun round, warning to get out	FIREALARM

Secure dog perhaps in vehicle

LANDROVER

After tea say took charge of games as coach perhaps

TRANSPORT

Pretended son played badly

SHAMMED

TEACHING SESSION

TUTORIAL

Lack of two principal characters ruining scene

ABSENCE

Element found in a cholesterol-reducing drug and vitamin

ASTATINE