The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 29

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Fraudulent schemes in a game RACKETS
AMERICAN SONGBIRD ORIOLE
Where everyone was rightly under suspicion, hellish working for a Chinese newspaper? (6,2,3,6,7) MURDERON
LOWEST POINT NADIR
TO SOME EXTENT ISH
Russian-American writer, d. 1977 NABOKOV
Spiel, dark stuff PITCH
PAY BACK REIMBURSE
GENUINE AUTHENTIC
ONE OF ISAAC'S TWIN SONS JACOB
Scary girl or stinker almost flipped, of course NOPROBLEM
Very cold — incisive BITING
SEE 25 EXPRESS
SEE 25 THEORIENT
Garment for skiers and bank robbers BALACLAVA
Having sideburns WHISKERED
BEATRIX POTTER CHARACTER PETERRABBIT
Rank skirt, but not top ORDER
Landowner seen, hide daughter LAIRD
Conveyance for hire MINICAB
Scholar delivering sermon, endless gossip RABBI
'ouse introducing marginally better card game OMBRE
FISHERMAN ANGLER
Dropping old stick, heel on loafer's broken it EXCREMENT
See red garment worn by orphan, one abandoned BLOWAFUSE
Typically English establishment, Australian native inside? TEAROOM
Best knitted top, one buttoned up OPTIMUM
PRO FOR
LORD OR LADY NOBLE
Popular — attractive HOT
IN CLOSE PROXIMITY CHEEKBYJOWL
Microphone initially grasped by idle singer? DOMINGO
Owner of sword I plant while not going down SAMURAI
King's speech, 1963 IHAVEADREAM
Paul in debt, probably asking for a stroke? MEOWING
Don overturned tennis umpire's call NOTUP
FOR EVER ETERNAL