The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2024 02 20

crossword answers
Clue Answer
FRENCH POLICEMAN GENDARME
Inflict corporal punishment on kid, for example LEATHER
BUBBLY CHAMPERS
Passing white's soaring over grass ELAPSING
On-board scrubber? DECKHAND
GREY AGED
Snaps emerging branches SHOOTS
It's not easy catching variety, American counterpart of 24 HARVARD
Fly like some insects, or bat FLUTTER
Invariably costly meal, it's said, extended by indefinite period LUNCHEON
LARGE WADER IBIS
Secure arms from Communist Russia TRUSS
CITY IN PAKISTAN LAHORE
Put in situation hard to get out of? Possibly, providing one red's OK SNOOKERED
FOOD IN REPAST IS ODDLY DEFICIENT EATS
Gorgeous and eye-catching STRIKING
About to break down ONTHEBLINK
Loquacious type CHATTERBOX
Start of tribute about stupid Italian poet TASSO
Knockout fixture CUPTIE
Kind of 18, or kind of blue OXFORD
Sit on and across BESTRIDE
Ambassador's immersed in European matter in Greek city EPHESUS
Minded after power is handed over PRESENTED
Take it easy! SLOWDOWN
Monarch displayed in museum – initially housed show in ground-floor extensions VERANDAHS
GIBBERISH MUMBOJUMBO
DAINTY TWEE
CUMMERBUND, FOR EXAMPLE SASH
Climates (anag.) CLEMATIS
OPPOSITION SHADOW
Doesn't finish some panda food LEAVES
HERB SAGE
Mark similar to 18, but higher APOSTROPHE
STY NOISE OINK
A point above 18 in game before final pass forward SEMICOLON
Teenage miscreant's 'award' ASBO
Maximally exposed, first covering up hole BLEAKEST
Add fatty stuff to heart of cabbage, say BUTTER
Tyrannical ruler found in previous answer, after all IVAN
Like husband found in a fornicating situation? ABASHED
FAIR COMELY
FLOW REGULATOR STOPCOCK
Insulation mineral, as shiny silicate MICA
Put out eggs – almost leave out scrambled OVULATE
WWII battle STALINGRAD