The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2023 09 12

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Group of touring performers TROUPE
Novelty sporting competition — arc cakes (anag) SACKRACE
Stupefied (informal) DOPY
Case has one placed in clear folder? PATIENT
Project for viewing — conceal from harm SCREEN
Core of county police force not satisfied UNMET
Pirates' ensign JOLLYROGER
Medicine which has no physiological effect PLACEBO
Endeavour to capture contact linked to English betrayal TREACHERY
Instrument for execution by strangulation once used in Spain GAROTTE
Key type added on to register LATCH
Lure agency worker to join top table TEMPT
French fabulist, d. 1695 LAFONTAINE
Canada's second largest city MONTREAL
Plenty in favour of merger PROFUSION
Blonde fairy tale protagonist GOLDILOCKS
Artificial servant picked up after staff MANMADE
Salvage extremely rare celestial object RECLAIM
Sit up after a tale from him, perhaps AESOP
Air sounds freaked out such old fogeys DINOSAURS
Take time to get in close STEAL
Two insects left out? That's powerful BEEFY
Communication equipment created by worker group HANDSET
THOROUGHFARE ROAD
PRE-PRANDIAL DRINK APERITIF
PORTABLE COMPUTER LAPTOP
OF POOR QUALITY CHEAP
MILITARY BLOCKADE SIEGE
Current source of master's trendy interior MAINS
FOOD STORE LARDER
BELOW UNDER
BALDERDASH CLAPTRAP
Spread discharge — it's all over now PASTEVENT
WIND INSTRUMENT TUBA
HERB OREGANO
Desperate men head to addiction treatment METHADONE
Investigator locates married American friends in Arab country OMBUDSMAN
Material name added to charge LINEN
Piece in cited literature about accent TILDE
Pools found on embankment at historic conference site POTSDAM
Reconsider second exercise over youngster getting upset BACKPEDAL