The Guardian 2023 02 23 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Critical moment?	CRUNCH
Essential — as scenery (anag)	NECESSARY
Lack of emotion	APATHY
Lack of what's needed	DEARTH
Member of an armed gang	BANDIT
Not co-operative	UNHELPFUL
One can be vicious or virtuous	CIRCLE
Owner of extensive parts of Scotland?	LAIRD
Turned quickly around	SPUN
Undercover way in?	PORTICO
4x4 car, not Rover or Sierra	RANGE
Game's involving two bridge players getting tricks	RUSES
In front of uncovered king, captures rooks	TAKESIN
Inappropriately, give hands to married ladies when dancing	MISDEAL
Not entirely cool at hip club in India	LATHI
Philosopher astride horse or kind of lamb	PASCHAL
Retiring from transport company surprisingly flush	BASHFUL
Setter dons apron for cooking, keeping dry	RAINPROOF
Skilful concealing old British firm's shortfall	DEFICIT
Smashed bulb may be so	LITUP
Spinner, which is unaffected by spinning?	ROTATOR
Start travelling to Nigeria	ORIGINATE
Statesperson, one given bagel and pasty	IOWAN
Succeeded cracking puzzles needing brains and hard fight	CROSSSWORDSWITH
What tennis player does after a let shows modesty	RESERVE
UNDERHAND	SNEAKY
WIDESPREAD	RIFE
TURNING POINT	LANDMARK
Official admitting hesitation over having more autonomy	FREER
STAGE BUSINESS	BYPLAY
SET UP	INSTALL
Finish eg trifle, extremely nice after turnover	ENDUP
BADLY BEHAVED	NAUGHTY
BACKGROUND	CONTEXT
VIOLENT ATTACKS	ASSAULTS
Female leaving old seafood	ORMER
Charges current politician over void lease for land ownership	FEESIMPLE
Up to a given moment	UNTIL
Model construction set first patented by Frank Hornby from Liverpool in 1901	MECCANO
Knobbly bits	LUMPS
Stall worker given zero extra cash	TEMPORISE
Grilled cheese scoffed after case of Drambuie	DEBRIEFED
STOP WORKING	PACKUP
DISABLED	OUTOFACTION

Critical moment?

CRUNCH

Essential — as scenery (anag)

NECESSARY

Lack of emotion

APATHY

Lack of what's needed

DEARTH

Member of an armed gang

BANDIT

Not co-operative

UNHELPFUL