The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2022 09 06

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Improved, he can dribble during final ENHANCED
Sky-blue colour SAPPHIRE
Troy departing from barren island SARK
Joined one inside and exercised WIELDED
Spoil 1 + 1,000 + 2? IMPAIR
SCUFFLE TUSSLE
Attain maximum intensity PEAK
ABRASION SCRAPE
Economist hits out over money SMITH
Predicament — golfer's target HOLE
DAM-BUILDING ANIMAL BEAVER
Happy state — being hugged by grandad on vacation GLAD
Soldiers welcome band signing up again REHIRING
Officer's English degree is specialised for an American MAJORED
Horse kept only for hire HACK
Former F1 champion's peak? HILL
Extra cost keeping car in drive outside entrance to home SURCHARGE
COMPROMISE TRADEOFF
Liberia's capital MONROVIA
Poet dropping right in HOME
WOODWORK CARPENTRY
GOAD SPUR
British surface-to-air missile, introduced in 1971 RAPIER
Clever stories have no intro­duction or conclusion ABLE
Cricket ground has slower ball spinning: all out, including duck ROSEBOWL
Note: master of riding waves to rise up once more RESURFACE
Press into service in City SHANGHAI
Tortured antihero's been abandoned by Richard in scrubland HEATH
In London, stop politician hiding in box TEMPLE
ELUDE ESCAPE
Chairman devouring last of curry sauce MAYO
Character from Porridge breaks into vault which ends in trouble ETHOS
Orders around half of your tablets in such buildings? CHURCHES
Even Alsatians rested LAIN
BECOME LESS SEVERE RELENT
Boxing blows — cuter pups (anag) UPPERCUTS
ABNORMAL ATYPICAL
Perhaps roofer's chicken after heading to tower THATCHER
PROSPERITY AFFLUENCE
Post-nuptial break HONEYMOON
National insurance's introduction is real variable ISRAELI
Cheddar, possibly — cheese, finally eaten by king GEORGE