The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2023 12 18

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Able lad composed poetic work BALLADE
Card for social organisation CLUB
City brute running wild – one to be caught BEIRUT
Cold maiden? Provide blanket maybe COVER
Cook's device beginning to give problem? GRIDDLE
Dull commercials showing nymphs DRYADS
False alarm – drinking spirit insignificant MARGINAL
Have a look – find hidden meat VEAL
Metal left inside idol GOLD
Move home location, from what we hear INCITE
Remorse of English fool interrupting Trump's no.2 PENITENCE
Set to spark off explosive material GELIGNITE
Socialist leader, a sort disturbed by Conservative CASTRO
Survive as final batter to get dismissed OUTLAST
Tea? Good, about to come in before expected time! EARLGREY
Teller of horror stories to attempt verse POETRY
Very small container by end of alleyway TINY
Worn out fellow going round kept going for ages DRAGGEDON
GUESS PREDICT
FAKE ASSUMED
ANCESTRY HERITAGE
SPICY TANGY
GUTSY PLUCKY
Chicken ____ KIEV
Dirty lazy type SLOB
Filming device on computer WEBCAM
Insect owner using a smoker BEEKEEPER
Ribald (anag.) BRIDAL
S American grass PAMPAS
Setter of riddle SPHINX
Swing and miss at a golf ball AIRSHOT
Walking encyclopaedia? KNOWALL
Arsenal supporter heading off into New York women's house NUNNERY
Best, perhaps, granny's hairpiece TOPKNOT
Certificate Foreign Office employee doesn't complete DIPLOMA
Died after aerial battle: going to heaven? SKYWARD
Eloquent preacher's year in church ORATORY
Extremely plaintive, desperate appeal for money abroad PESOS
Foreign character turns up in Paris park PSI
Man a terrible tsar? Not very IAN
New to drink, run empire badly ENPRIMEUR
Perhaps dog at college a bloomer PETUNIA
PM meeting an indigenous American MAYAN
Put off seeing how library books are displayed? SHELVED
S for Sovereign HEADOFSTATE
Showing arrogance, paid sportsman perhaps duly sacked PROUDLY
Tiny vegetable, and not a whole fruit PEA
Told a tale about drug being craved YEARNED
Two shortly become confused in silly talk TWADDLE
Search (anag.) CHASER
PHONEY BOGUS
COURTEOUS GENTEEL
GO UP AND DOWN SEESAW
WRIT SUBPOENA
AIRSHIP BLIMP
DISCOURTEOUS UNCIVIL