The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2024 01 02

crossword answers
Clue Answer
1930s jazz style SWING
Beam in a building JOIST
Craving affection NEEDY
Jane Eyre, say GOVERNESS
JARGON ARGOT
LAND MEASURE HECTARE
Senior nun ABBESS
Sew up in surgery SUTURE
Small but desirable BIJOU
Tool – cheat CHISEL
Ugly duckling, really CYGNET
'Bird' found in 'White Album' TEAL
Feature of retrograde love song NOSE
Forlorn, hollow dummy covers behind DREARY
Germanic invader beheaded – some nerve! AXON
Greedy types reported in Prince's domain WALES
Greta munches a Pacific nation's bean GARBANZO
Humongous T. rex demolished a brewed lager EXTRALARGE
King Charlie in bind KNIT
Meat from wild animals, not named at first SALAMI
Modern currency? Scream 'opt out!' CRYPTO
One who won't drink and drive, in practice DRYRUN
Trusted friends at college begin here MAINMENU
Well off, but bound by summons to where convict marks time CELLWALL
SLANDER DEFAME
RENOUNCE DISOWN
IF WHETHER
HONE SHARPEN
HILARITY MIRTH
Greek woodland deity SATYR
FANATIC ZEALOT
DISTANCE LENGTH
DESCRIPTIVE PHRASE EPITHET
COUPON VOUCHER
CABAL FACTION
BOOT OUT EXPEL
ARTIFICIAL MANMADE
Fictional relative's tuna-salad-and-cracker-eating bird AUNTPOLLY
Actress reportedly to bear chess prodigy CARRIEFISHER
Sewer obstruction FATBERG
Au contraire! FARFROMIT
Words of daring, say, embraced by champions HEREGOES
Was humiliated in café? LOSTFACE
Strangely, casual attire on you at first elicits words of warning CAUTIONARYTALES
Rogue cop seen in Christmas décor PINECONES
Rent by oneself for much less LETALONE