The Guardian 2023 03 07 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
PUT AN END TO DRINK	SCOTCH
Medicinal cream	OINTMENT
Lacking will to use US highway, cutting out middle of journey	INTESTATE
DRIVE	GETUPANDGO
Concentrated in core of listeners' riddle, say	INTENSIVE
Regret being drunk on rum	MOURN
Provide eg food	CATER
A lot of money perhaps leads to embezzlement — special investigator now joins fray	WADESIN
Trouble initially stopping, cut back and left	PARTED
Article on drink: a cause of pain	ANGINA
Collision of vehicles (informal)	PRANG
Reversal in clue to react?	ABOUTTURN
Regulate misuse of pesticide — it'd cut corners etc	SETPIECES
Boatman's enemies changing direction in exercise	PILATES
Quietly removing wrappers from fancy baked food	PANCAKE
... murder of bargee, not a diver	GREBE
CHEAP TRINKET	KNICKKNACK
STUPEFY	STUN
GIVE AS A GIFT	DONATE
Person of long-standing loyalty	STALWART
Pervert	TWIST
Indulge in drink, losing head	WALLOW
Homeless and destitute person	DOWNANDOUT
Dry white wine, resembling Chablis	CHARDONNAY
EMOTIONAL STRAIN	TENSION
Lubricates drunken serenade, endlessly filling empty glass	GREASES
Someone legally empowered to witness signatures, certify documents and take depositions	NOTARY
TYPE OF LETTUCE	ICEBERG
Spread rumour	GOSSIP
STANDARD	NORM
Card game — emperor	NAPOLEON
Troops drop GI, taking odds for leader	TOPDOG
Party? Good! Know direction of line for setter's home?	DOGKENNEL
New personifications of familiar ideas	AVATARS
FRAGRANT	AROMATIC
Consummate non-consumer consumed by contents of query	UTTER
Increases in inflation, as young take on politicians before university	PUMPSUP
Surfeit starts to show at one over eight, say	SATIATE
Sound like a faulty chainsaw, cutting out first in ...	SCHWA
DANCE SUGGESTIVELY	TWERK

PUT AN END TO DRINK

SCOTCH

Medicinal cream

OINTMENT

Lacking will to use US highway, cutting out middle of journey

INTESTATE

DRIVE

GETUPANDGO

Concentrated in core of listeners' riddle, say

INTENSIVE

Regret being drunk on rum

MOURN