The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2021 12 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
CONJECTURE GUESS
COURAGE TO CARRY ON METTLE
Institute of higher education COLLEGE
Part of a twining plant — red lint (anag) TENDRIL
Remorse caused by feeling responsible for doing wrong GUILT
Semi-automatic pistol first patented in Germany in 1898 LUGER
Symbolic figure supposed to bring good luck MASCOT
About right, brief idea for currency FRANC
Bird laugh LARK
Bird — tit BOOBY
Bottom on turf, great tackle FACE
Cook cooks old birds DODOES
Corporation documents, puffed up TUMID
Dove, one perched on hand after uplifting eclipse PACIFIST
Leader of Conservatives in bumbling oaf is humiliating disaster FIASCO
Money returned — woof! YAP
Novel is by all contributors initially referring to language unit SYLLABIC
Queen caught by pelican, neatly ANNE
Shag explorer lying back, commander TOBACCO
Some fugitive, as yet loose EASY
Swallow against birds flying west CONSUME
Terrible fear in turkey, seeing gull DEFRAUD
Under spruce, hole's opening NEATH
Unfortunate scrap defended by jerk TRAGIC
Venom bound to stuff a bunny ACRIMONY
SEE 7 CHOP
UNCONVENTIONAL OFFBEAT
STAGGERING REELING
VESTIGE TRACE
PICK-ME-UP TONIC
PARTS OF A PROCESS STAGES
LILTING IRISH ACCENT BROGUE
KITCHEN APPLIANCE KETTLE
GRAND NATIONAL RACECOURSE AINTREE
GO BEYOND EXCEED
FLIP CHART SUPPORTER EASEL
Covent Garden fare? OPERA
CONSUMED EATEN
Come to terms (or to rest) SETTLE
Ancestry, pedigree LINEAGE
Laud vet following surgery after duck produced eggs OVULATED
Herb has heard bird THYME
Controlled strike at parrot in windy park KARATE
Contract secured by quail for device used on American rails COWCATCHER
Birds in tree almost caught by dogs COCKERELS
Bird or insect beside plant stem CORMORANT
Bird after song for competition ROUNDROBIN
Nut-turning tool SPANNER