The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2024 02 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
'Mean as custard' for 'keen as mustard', say SPOONERISM
BANISH OUST
BIT IOTA
Bolster, for example PILLOW
Boot – yokel CLODHOPPER
DOVE PEACENIK
FLORIDA CITY MIAMI
Hooter's loop? NOSERING
Saccharine – dirty ICKY
SEE 9 STAR
Amount of space in book VOLUME
Capsizing in warfare, weakened vessel EWER
Country game on river recalled NIGERIA
Defeat finally complete after reversal, lose it ERUPT
Explosive ingredient key in spirit, head of course blowing off SALTPETRE
Huddersfield initially at bottom of division - how far down? DEPTH
Island, 1/63,360 miles INCH
Naked dean back from Japan, say EASTERN
Notes in old currency collected by Paul and mum MEMORANDA
Playful crime fools jerks FROLICSOME
Priest runs after page 3, for example RECTOR
Stop key piercing skin RESCIND
Suffering if in need, it's endless INDEFINITE
Temple say, where church dignitary originally involved in criminal trials CHILD
Thread is line in middle of bulletin LISLE
Turn up for yoga class, did you say? Boo and hiss! ONOMATOPOEIA
Where heaps could be made flabby? OUTOFSHAPE
SEE 17 DOWN POLICEMAN
STRINGED INSTRUMENT UKULELE
TOIL TRAVAIL
SPRING JUMP
SPECTRE PHANTOM
SNARE ENTRAP
Nomads (anag.) DAMSON
Insect's home ANTHILL
FORM CLASS
FAKE PSEUDO
EMPTY CLEAR
Blower behind a plane, say TAILWIND
SEE 16 HESTON
Where bishop might have to move quickly, sermons about five hundred seconds SPEEDCHESS
Relative instructed to cover a baked food NANBREAD