The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2022 08 02

crossword answers
Clue Answer
EAT LIKE A BIRD PECK
That's gross! YUCK
The basics! BAREBONES
Top order batsman OPENER
Baking a gluten tart initially is a challenge GAUNTLET
Card revoked over fine finish by Everton's lead footballer DEFENDER
Cleaner removing outside smell PONG
European writer grasps Latin POLE
I quit drugs to inhale oxygen, deuterium and tritium, perhaps ISOTOPES
Insects need septic tanks CENTIPEDES
Japan expels contests JOUSTS
Last time in, for example STAY
Leave behind urn? OUTRUN
Letters translated on unusual map provide illumination STREETLAMP
Majority of river current included liquid MOISTURE
One raced around shopping area ARCADE
Place occupied by Prince Charming is not around No. 10 POSITION
Result of bribe PAYOFF
Standard and Sun cover training records PAPERS
Stick out for last half of Magic Roundabout character PROTRUDE
Throughout Whitsun, a minister gets big wave TSUNAMI
USEFUL HANDY
SUGAR SUBSTITUTE SWEETENER
Store for grain SILO
Shoreline bird SANDPIPER
Progressing sequentially LINEAR
Plant-based hair dye HENNA
Measured amount of medicine taken at any one time DOSAGE
Film-maker's car loses wheel going up street in Paris AUTEUR
Hard grey-white metal, Zr, used in nuclear reactors ZIRCONIUM
EAT LIKE A RODENT GNAW
DRAW AIMLESSLY DOODLE
DISCOURTEOUS RUDE
Colourless, odourless inert gas, Ar, used in some electric lights ARGON
CHEMICAL USED TO KILL INSECTS PESTICIDE
Autry or Hackman? GENE
UK MONEY POUNDS
A performance enhancer: it might have a huge impact ASTEROID
LIMBER SUPPLE
Makes an abrupt and total reversal of policy FLIPFLOPS
Open area surrounded by buildings COURTYARD
Statement from film divorcee overturned REMARK
Rum? No, must want double STUNTWOMAN
Law broken by government after a day to decide ADJUDGE
Secrets — cards in a tarot pack ARCANA