The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 12

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Brief top PRIME
Improve getting two directions by luck, first off ENHANCE
Sailor in action regularly dropped off here? CABIN
Signifies — money MEANS
SOFT CREAMY SWEET FUDGE
COMPASSIONATE MERCIFUL
Was first around Middle East city, bearing a lot of stuff? LADENED
Tweaking REFINEMENT
Mum stops a sailor boarding container vessel CATAMARAN
Sound of tranquillity in musical work PIECE
Physician left after a woman's protracted delivery DRAWL
Fancy item lost close to store is evergreen at Christmas MISTLETOE
A black mark? SMUT
Outstanding lakes in Britain polluted BRILLIANT
Outrage as a Guardian setter's reported APPAL
OBJECTIVE FACTUAL
Touring East, passes on hand-rolled ciggies REEFERS
A grim tortuous character performance RIGMAROLE
URGENT PRESSING
Lacking gravity? WEIGHTLESS
Proposal put in limp language PLAN
School's top people finally cracking Nutmeg's riddle SIEVE
Spades cut in dull card game OMBRE
Dishevelled engineers put back more grating ROUGHER
EGG CELL OVUM
Set up a fake internet profile — sift cha (anag) CATFISH
Little Boy's younger and nastier cousin admitting personal problem to hospital doctor HBOMB
Artists first impressed by youngsters CUBISTS
Music for dancing bears spanning prohibition era HABANERAS
Artistic cover-up? FIGLEAF
Below par wage? SICKPAY
Put back a receptacle in side feature of a hotel room? MINIBAR
Equestrian controls REINS
BALANCED WELLROUNDED
Note group having to adjust again RESET
Scoundrel blocking intelligence agency's bugs CICADAS
Marital break-up DIVORCE
LEAFLET CIRCULAR
Sets idly disposed are given a distinctive designation? STYLISED
Hip fractured recently in pursuit PHILATELY
Ask for quiet work in retail outlet SHOP
SEE 4 PARTY
Co-ordinates in order to get baubles and tinsel? DECORATIONS
UNDYING IMMORTAL
Tart flavouring a little bit sweet LEMONDROP
Observing number given money? Good NOTING
SEE 5 BANNISTER
Departed — late DEAD
Jointly founded centre to host hundred on uncertain date COCREATED
Modern language degree, so it appears BASIC
Study setter's material DENIM
EBB WEAKEN
Word from Paris now devised for a style of music MOTOWN
Short branch railway line SPUR
Solitary old liberal found in US city ONLY
STAIR POST NEWEL
Sauce recipes, tomato included PESTO
In a merry state, saw scope to include new festive scene SNOWSCAPE
Item of fake news CANARD
Opinion from left-wingers in straitened times almost never carefully examined STANCE
Degenerate Republican's falling asleep RELAPSE