The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2019 12 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Colonel ingests oxygen atop headland, showing aplomb COOLNESS
INFORMAL GATHERING SOCIAL
OPPORTUNITIES TO CATCH UP ON SLEEP LIEINS
ELONGATED EDIBLE FRUIT BANANA
Russia's banks fiddle endlessly with cases from Italy RAVIOLI
Dislocated nine noses? Definitely not INNOSENSE
MODERN TIMES; RECENTLY TODAY
PLENIPOTENTIARY; LEGATE ENVOY
PROHIBIT; DECREE ENJOIN
HACKNEYED; UNORIGINAL TRITE
PRIMA DONNA DIVA
Ignore eyewitness without hesitation (4.2) PASSBY
What goes in mulled wine? Bit of cinnamon, dear CLOVE
Intimidate and turn spy with touch PSYCHOUT
Light meal; snack BITE
Silk pants being laid out as festive treat PIGSINBLANKETS
So splendid VERYGOOD
APPEAL TO; GOAD URGE
Clever? Solomon? To some extent? To a huge extent! EVERSO
STRATEGY; AGENDA PLAN
INFLAME; SPARK OFF IGNITE
Uninjured, rare bird almost crashed into something met at high speed SOUNDBARRIER
Recklessly races back for pescatarian's dish CRABCAKES
EFFERVESCENT, BUBBLY VIVACIOUS
President grandly dines, leading to gym session PRESSUPS
Cask of don drunk with crisps, etc SNACKFOOD
SHORT OPEN JACKET: RAVEL PIECE BOLERO
BLACK MARK TAINT
HABIT, CUSTOM WONT
Why so blue, kid? Regrettably, it's the drink DOUBLEWHISKY
A curry, beer cans laid out as festive treat (9.5) CRANBERRYSAUCE
FAY'S SO LAX (ANAG) SLYASAFOX
Alcoholic aficionado on vacation, scoundrel's drinking orangey liqueurs CURACAOS
Oaf's to run about, in a way OFASORT
Report following that woman's affair SHEBANG
CROATIAN CITY, THE ITALIAN RAGUSA DUBROVNIK
Opens a French port and sips (to begin with) UNCORKS
CAMPANILE BELLTOWER
ONE OF THE D-DAY LANDING BEACHES JUNO
Eurasian rose; the sweetbrier EGLANTINE
Lets out what a Cockney comic does, we're told EGESTS
Cartoon character sounded kind of fat OLIVEOYL
Shocked? About time to become experienced TASTED
IN A PARTICULARLY POOR STATE ATALOWEBB
Miss getting into album? Shut up CLOSED
Tint with blubber, leading to commotion HUEANDCRY
MONK OR NUN WHO HAS TAKEN VOWS VOTARY
A little dab at Ikea fabric BATIK
RUN ONE'S EYE OVER: UNDERSTAND READ
EXEMPLAR HERO
Tolkien's language not hard, reveals the King ELVIS
INVENTION THAT SECURES PART OF LEVEL CROSSING VELCRO
Next to west section of church, left a kind of orange NAVEL
TEMPORARY CONFIRMATION OF INSURANCE COVERNOTE
TALK INCESSANTLY: DRAG GOONANDON
INTERRELATED; RECIPROCAL TWOWAY