The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2023 09 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Urban areas designated for specific or restricted purposes PRECINCTS
Bits and ___ BOBS
MAKE PRETTIER EMBELLISH
Expert awfully nice about financial gain? The opposite PROFICIENT
Think much of Paul? REVERE
SEE 10 MINE
Hospital executive is such a gossip TALEBEARER
This is one! CLUE
Fond of sitting still SEDENTARY
Central African country and lake CHAD
FACADE VENEER
NONSENSE GIBBERISH
ARTIFICIAL ERSATZ
ADVANTAGE EDGE
DESICCATED ARID
JOB TASK
Cardi B or Tupac, for example RAPPER
Lively and energetic SPRIGHTLY
Palindromic system for determ­ining an object's location RADAR
Backward boy, not about to become a chemist DALTON
Clever move possible to get voucher? COUPON
College gym by end of term in financial difficulties? PEMBROKE
Rubbish ex-PM, creating upset DISMAY
Stone tool in hotel ground NEOLITH
Strangeness seen in a time where deceit is hidden ALIENAGE
Don't attach much importance to power — give up PLAYDOWN
Grilled 'sur l'herbe'? BARBECUED
ASTUTE CLEVER
Being put out, goad union's dinosaurs IGUANODONS
FANATIC ZEALOT
ALTERNATIVE TO SMOKING VAPING
Versatile newspaper's feature — a relay race? SPLITRUN
Little bird — one finally given tag EAGLET
Stops Shakespeare's Peter being heard? QUINTS
School group getting a toy package TRAINSET
SEE 24 ACROSS EYED
SEAMSTER SEWER
I need source of metal, Al? Wrong! LEAD
___ Gwyn, actress and Charles II's mistress, d. 1687 NELL
BREAKFAST FOOD CEREAL
Rebels in 'shocking units' led by soldiers REVOLTS
An eleven dismissed, not half worried ANXIOUS
Woman very old to get married? It's not admitted UNAVOWED
Venetian transport operator GONDOLIER
Like a deficient cellist maybe, carrying on regardless UNBOWED
Army rank above colonel BRIGADIER