The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2021 12 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Ancestry, pedigree LINEAGE
GRAND NATIONAL RACECOURSE AINTREE
SEE 7 CHOP
Nut-turning tool SPANNER
Herb has heard bird THYME
Bird after song for competition ROUNDROBIN
Bird laugh LARK
LILTING IRISH ACCENT BROGUE
Remorse caused by feeling responsible for doing wrong GUILT
Unfortunate scrap defended by jerk TRAGIC
VESTIGE TRACE
Controlled strike at parrot in windy park KARATE
CONJECTURE GUESS
Semi-automatic pistol first patented in Germany in 1898 LUGER
STAGGERING REELING
Leader of Conservatives in bumbling oaf is humiliating disaster FIASCO
Shag explorer lying back, commander TOBACCO
Bottom on turf, great tackle FACE
Novel is by all contributors initially referring to language unit SYLLABIC
Queen caught by pelican, neatly ANNE
COURAGE TO CARRY ON METTLE
Part of a twining plant — red lint (anag) TENDRIL
Contract secured by quail for device used on American rails COWCATCHER
Dove, one perched on hand after uplifting eclipse PACIFIST
Under spruce, hole's opening NEATH
Venom bound to stuff a bunny ACRIMONY
PICK-ME-UP TONIC
About right, brief idea for currency FRANC
UNCONVENTIONAL OFFBEAT
Laud vet following surgery after duck produced eggs OVULATED
Money returned — woof! YAP
KITCHEN APPLIANCE KETTLE
Some fugitive, as yet loose EASY
Covent Garden fare? OPERA
GO BEYOND EXCEED
Birds in tree almost caught by dogs COCKERELS
Come to terms (or to rest) SETTLE
FLIP CHART SUPPORTER EASEL
Bird — tit BOOBY
Cook cooks old birds DODOES
Swallow against birds flying west CONSUME
Corporation documents, puffed up TUMID
Symbolic figure supposed to bring good luck MASCOT
Terrible fear in turkey, seeing gull DEFRAUD
CONSUMED EATEN
Institute of higher education COLLEGE
Bird or insect beside plant stem CORMORANT
PARTS OF A PROCESS STAGES