The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2024 01 02

crossword answers
Clue Answer
DESCRIPTIVE PHRASE EPITHET
Forlorn, hollow dummy covers behind DREARY
CABAL FACTION
IF WHETHER
Words of daring, say, embraced by champions HEREGOES
Jane Eyre, say GOVERNESS
Greek woodland deity SATYR
Small but desirable BIJOU
One who won't drink and drive, in practice DRYRUN
COUPON VOUCHER
SLANDER DEFAME
LAND MEASURE HECTARE
RENOUNCE DISOWN
ARTIFICIAL MANMADE
BOOT OUT EXPEL
HONE SHARPEN
JARGON ARGOT
FANATIC ZEALOT
DISTANCE LENGTH
HILARITY MIRTH
1930s jazz style SWING
Au contraire! FARFROMIT
Beam in a building JOIST
Craving affection NEEDY
Senior nun ABBESS
Sew up in surgery SUTURE
Tool – cheat CHISEL
Ugly duckling, really CYGNET
'Bird' found in 'White Album' TEAL
Feature of retrograde love song NOSE
Greedy types reported in Prince's domain WALES
Greta munches a Pacific nation's bean GARBANZO
King Charlie in bind KNIT
Meat from wild animals, not named at first SALAMI
Modern currency? Scream 'opt out!' CRYPTO
Rent by oneself for much less LETALONE
Trusted friends at college begin here MAINMENU
Germanic invader beheaded – some nerve! AXON
Actress reportedly to bear chess prodigy CARRIEFISHER
Humongous T. rex demolished a brewed lager EXTRALARGE
Well off, but bound by summons to where convict marks time CELLWALL
Strangely, casual attire on you at first elicits words of warning CAUTIONARYTALES
Was humiliated in café? LOSTFACE
Rogue cop seen in Christmas décor PINECONES
Fictional relative's tuna-salad-and-cracker-eating bird AUNTPOLLY
Sewer obstruction FATBERG