The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2024 02 20

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