The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2024 05 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Mrs Sprat does talk CHEWTHEFAT
No need to make fun of such desperate pleas for demise SELFPARODYING
Settle clue for bark PAYUP
BEFORE PRIORTO
I say, why me, being sent back to a rogue school? ACADEMY
Decoration for military march is cheap stuff as well TATTOO
Speculative behaviour BETTING
Rock managed in-house GRANITE
MORAL DECLINE DECADENCE
Unreliable obsessive hiding cryptic code finally left ANECDOTAL
It's a tip PIGPEN
The Sun, for one, may be a bit loud and non-U TABLOID
Tea and a smile in distress CHAGRIN
Fixed (an election, say) RIGGED
Find two on a wicket BAIL
Spearhead stolen from tyrant's warehouse DEPOT
Shaped primarily like a star ASTRAL
Tall plant support BEANPOLE
RATIONALE LOGIC
DESIRE YEARNING
MANICURIST'S TOOL FILE
Save peeled grocer's fruit AVOCADO
IN SHOCK FLABBERGASTED
SEE 23 BYPASS
INUNDATED OVERRUN
STRONGLY URGE ENJOIN
Bag up very cautious bird CASSOWARY
Analyse pretty top and bottom PARSE
Play it slowly LARGO
Mean – and drunk TIGHT
Insect's super-sensitive part ANTENNA
HIDDEN SECRETED
Bungled dive BELLYFLOP
Book pages LEAVES
STUDY OF FOSSILS PALAEONTOLOGY
Old watch chain FOB
SEE 12 FRANKLIN