The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2021 12 20

crossword answers
Clue Answer
TALKATIVE PERSON CHATTERBOX
SIMPLE AND GUILELESS NAIVE
BE CONTRITE REPENT
TAKE IT EASY RELAX
Slippery fish cooked on banks of Tay SHIFTY
IMMEDIATE PROMPT
Ruined steamer owner's getting high in seaside town WESTONSUPERMARE
Resistance soldier makes a wild harangue RANT
Put on show for every class PERFORM
Permit to build hotel's beyond reason PUTUPWITH
Note place and time animal's caught and used as target CLAYPIGEON
Look for brochure American left PROSPECT
Small weight for a big cat OUNCE
Sometimes includes rejected article ITEM
A ___ Lad (1896 collection of AE Housman poems) SHROPSHIRE
Hanging spear of frozen water ICICLE
Maggie May singer RODSTEWART
Neck style or haircut? CREW
Quick and effective reply RIPOSTE
Automobile seen in Kansas City DODGE
Beach pebble or rock SANDSTONE
Celtic fan, perhaps, sawing a leg off GLASWEGIAN
Copy restriction? Not at first IMITATION
External route diverted OUTER
Extraordinarily powerful article Poirot was on to HERCULEAN
Husband enters to wreck party THRASH
Largely woolly letter from abroad? LAMBDA
Level in cup match, right? TIER
Mischievous spirit to depart, limpin' around HOBGOBLIN
Old soldier heading off demonstrator ARCHER
Policemen in some unit reorganised MOUNTIES
Put money in, having lost one's shirt? INVEST
School is excellent, but beginning to go bad HIGH
Size of old temporary housing EXTENT
Sort of pipe Spooner couldn't confuse! CORNCOB
Sphere in which your fortune may lie CRYSTALBALL
Start getting leg fixed ONSET
Long process gently nursing husband LENGTHY
In conclusion, European Union holds very good record on energy EPILOGUE
Heading off, slightly intoxicated after quiet drink SHERRY
Nanny's nanny? GOATHERD
Disturbance in part of hospital stopped by police INCIDENT
Dispute in street about parking area SPAT
Dance judge's 6 knocked back last couple JIVE
Contracted rubbish collector goes round travelling on two wheels BICYCLES
Job done, cabbie, but now I'm confused YOUVEGOTMETHERE
Characters from Norfolk now nationally famous KNOWN
RAIMENT GARB
SYCOPHANT CRAWLER
Come ashore, admitting being a laird? LANDOWNING
An increasing problem ties boy in knots OBESITY
Bridge carrying a waterway AQUEDUCT
ESTABLISHED RELIGIOUS CEREMONY RITE
More fully developed RIPER
Spooky fairground ride GHOSTTRAIN
Riders (an apocalyptic quartet?) HORSEMEN
Error in casting Cinderela? SPELLINGMISTAKE
Hawk pursues a large female retreating as fast as possible FLATOUT
Unrealistic expectation of high tea? PIEINTHESKY
Comment about jam pudding ETONMESS
CONCILIATED APPEASED
NELSON OR HORNBLOWER? HORATIO