The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2021 08 18

crossword answers
Clue Answer
First Minister of Scotland since 2014 STURGEON
OSTENTATIOUS CEREMONY POMP
NON-ATTENDANCE ABSENCE
Make changes to help pair secure operation HIP
CONCEITED VAIN
APPRAISED ASSESSED
Suspended journalist on board STAYED
PRAISE INSINCERELY FLATTER
Travel about collecting papers RIDE
Temporarily take refuge — appropriate for all to ring BORROW
Flamboyant jumper worn by choice, oddly ROCOCO
Transport runs on iron railway FERRY
CARD GAME POKER
Credit petrol company over bioenergy reserve fund — ultimately, it's inward-looking CROSSEYED
Adages — Old Testament book PROVERBS
Stuck-up doctor eating egg I cooked RIGGED
Spill lime and soda over men returning to supply toilets LADIESROOM
Biden regularly on time visiting Conservative after no bad publicity NOTORIETY
Pugilist's complaint about shoulder, essentially — I'm afraid of boxing shame? CAULIFLOWER
Essential items named before marriage (introductions to dating sites) NEEDS
CRIMINAL ORGANISATION MAFIA
LEGERDEMAIN SLEIGHTOFHAND
MUSHROOM FEAST SPREAD
SEE 2 REPLACEMENT
Code G GOLF
EVICT EXPEL
East Africa country KENYA
Serving as an ordinary seaman in an old sailing ship BEFORETHEMAST
Nurse fits in coil, say, rejecting all potential for breeding? GENEPOOL
Insect breaking in to ferret's food store PANTRY
Huge coniferous California trees SEQUOIA
Resentment of a slight PIQUE
PRECISE EXACT
Swedish on vacation love cycling to clear stuff away SHOVEL
SEE 8 EAR
FOUR QUARTS GALLON
First part of play has touching effect ACTION
UNCOVER EXPOSE
Charlie joins a book club — he should know his way around CABDRIVER
Court date leading to deal, maybe WOOD
Put kilo on, occasionally full of fig pudding KULFI
HARTS AND HINDS DEER
Preen Oscar for university ball DOLLOP
2 and 4 expressed as a 12 INLIEU