The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2021 12 30

crossword answers
Clue Answer
DEMEANING INFRADIG
Temper! Losing head a lot OFTEN
SHINY METAL CHROME
THAWED OUT UNFROZE
Romance a special one? Not half! AMOUR
Tam o' Shanter poet BURNS
COMBINED UNITED
Naive and stupid, snorting cocaine earlier INADVANCE
Traditional pantomime — No. 1 bus stops (anag) PUSSINBOOTS
SEA CAPTAIN SKIPPER
Kind of poem 'written in a country churchyard' by Thomas Gray ELEGY
Wife's responsibility mostly to children DUTCH
HEAPS STACKS
'Excellent beer' in review for Crown and Sceptre? REGALIA
Take (or pull) back RETRACT
Victory? Sore loser back in touch is claiming one ... TRIUMPH
... bloke's a show-off! Think he could be desperate FANCYDAN
Tranquilise SEDATE
Girl from Welsh valley extremely down about leaving RHODA
Feel terrific — holy orders (not RC) providing a comfortable situation THELIFEOFRILEY
Theatrical friend in hotel, having forgotten new address HORATIO
Nudge when maintaining one's balance REMAINDER
OF LITTLE CONSEQUENCE NOBIGDEAL
BEWILDERED MYSTIFIED
Aim to have day in American hills UPLANDS
It's hit for one run SINGLE
VOILA! BINGO
BETRAY (INFORMAL) SHOP
Mike's gone back in lead perhaps METAL
Wish to keep going round state capital YEREVAN
Western director screens short story — never mind LETALONE
Helping one ingenue to conceal affair INAIDOF
HARD LABOUR TOIL
Crushed to powder GROUND
Occupying room as on-off lodger, might you say? MASON
Big game reserve visited by a Member of Parliament? SUPERBOWL
VEX ANNOY
Liberal entering has been received topless — he'd get an eyeful! OGLER
Cookery book contents RECIPES
Assume it's a 'no' for replacement gifts DONATIONS
VERY FASHIONABLE ONTREND
About time — pull in abdomen desperately (one who's trying to look sexy?) PLATINUMBLONDE
NOT SUBJECT TO TAXATION EXEMPT
Pound's poetry, one admitted, having a lot of charm, initially PULVERISE