The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2021 12 30

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