The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 08

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Spend money like water SPLURGE
Tendency to behave erratically INSTABILITY
Upmarket village near Epsom in Surrey EWELL
Clap about engineers turning up fuel DERV
Copper Age road men rebuilt GENDARME
Criminal admitting racket in transported goods LADING
Gag staff must keep wearing? This is irregular MINUTEMAN
German you sent west pocketing pound for tip UPEND
Government, say, blocking revolutionary ruler REGIME
Grunts from pigs quietly going out GIS
Indication submariner is surfacing OMEN
Large pole's covered in lead CLUE
Leaders removing one dent in iron PRESS
Made to run by header from Lucy Bronze? MEDAL
Match of variable quality EQUAL
Moving spades, detect components of nickel CENTS
Palladium rejected because screw contains iron SAFEGUARD
Raducanu's back, more confident one wants high returns USURER
Shambles! No good Queen covering up final note from Freddie Mercury MESSENGER
Silver and such like? One investigates prices PIRATES
Start to lose heart after fan rejects intro from Lady Gaga OVERFOND
Steel, say, was shown by artist beset by defamation LIBERAL
Summon a naked malefactor to accept fine EVOKE
Zest to put away doughnut or substantial puff GUST
Someone who nit-picks? CRITIC
Run of successes (informal) PURPLEPATCH
Popular British biscuit (plain or chocolate) HOBNOB
It measures electric current flow AMMETER
HIGH MOUNTAIN ALP
HELPER ATTENDANT
Fettuccine or fusilli? PASTA
EXPRESSION OF APPROVAL PLAUDIT
Compulsion to start fires PYROMANIA
Charlie Chaplin's famous 'little' role TRAMP
Burns night musician PIPER
BELLY BUTTON UMBILICUS
APART FROM EXCEPT
A Room of One's ___ (Virginia Woolf 1929 essay) OWN
A high ball? LOB
Spies a place where men go AGENTS
Speculators loudly vote for gold BULLSEYE
Look, I'm visibly happy to get picked up EYEBEAM
King, when retiring, strokes bird STEPHEN
Around opening, one hammered sheet for platinum? SEVENTIETH
Albert's pick (anag) — small plastic and cardboard wrap BLISTERPACK
EAGLES' NESTS EYRIES
It's performed in wooden-soled shoes CLOGDANCE