The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2023 11 20

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Long lost texts found mixed up in local addresses DEADSEASCROLLS
Listener in tears hits back REARENDS
Gangster carrying gun round, warning to get out FIREALARM
Pessimistic, for example, in domestic surroundings NEGATIVE
Written order for payment CHEQUE
Wife on horse, as it were, has to wrap up SWADDLE
SMALL STONE PEBBLE
Subversion headed off in issue of book EDITION
Coming to see one's vocation CALLING
FIGURE OF SPEECH TROPE
A pair of bishops at scripture, one wearing a mitre perhaps ABBOT
Protect and toughen around top of skull INSURE
Secure dog perhaps in vehicle LANDROVER
Pretended son played badly SHAMMED
After tea say took charge of games as coach perhaps TRANSPORT
Cattle cross-breed BEEFALO
Ever more rapidly EXPONENTIALLY
Abandons all hope in a spider's web DESPAIRS
FORCED IMPELLED
Directed media to reform AIMED
Gaining ranking after draw is announced SUCCEEDING
Realise rubbish left out is not so problematic EASIER
Thin wrapping can frustrate TINFOIL
TUBULAR PASTA MACARONI
AUDACITY TEMERITY
More inquisitive about one getting extra rowdy NOISIER
From Douglas, say MANX
CLOCK, SAY TIMER
Intoxicated and given to be overbearing HIGHHANDED
Come across an equal in audition APPEAR
Shelled facility is twisted and sloping ITALIC
Angry pub scene results in hail of missiles BARRAGE
What should be taken if wise man turns up after party? DOSAGE
Dignified meeting of lovers under superbly elegant covers SEDATE
SUFFUSE PERVADE
Arrangements one may be reduced to RANKS
Run a short fiddle in cases of meat RAVIOLI
They learn choral arrangement in two seconds SCHOLARS
MUSICAL WORK OPUS
REMOVAL EXTRACTION
Had been to take boat trip for Christmas cheer WASSAIL
Instrument made in red and orange, strangely REEDORGAN
Port of ancient Egypt ALEXANDRIA
HORSE-DRAWN VEHICLE CHARIOT
PALINDROMIC GERMAN NAME OTTO
Element found in a cholesterol-reducing drug and vitamin ASTATINE
Lack of two principal characters ruining scene ABSENCE
TEACHING SESSION TUTORIAL
Old cronies abandoned leader and fell into disarray SENIOR
OMIT SKIP
Unit of magnetic flux density – car brand TESLA
Christmas dinners have no starter for old prison officers TURNKEYS