The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 12

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Brief top PRIME
Improve getting two directions by luck, first off ENHANCE
Sailor in action regularly dropped off here? CABIN
COMPASSIONATE MERCIFUL
Was first around Middle East city, bearing a lot of stuff? LADENED
Tweaking REFINEMENT
Mum stops a sailor boarding container vessel CATAMARAN
Sound of tranquillity in musical work PIECE
Physician left after a woman's protracted delivery DRAWL
Fancy item lost close to store is evergreen at Christmas MISTLETOE
SOFT CREAMY SWEET FUDGE
Signifies — money MEANS
Observing number given money? Good NOTING
Departed — late DEAD
Jointly founded centre to host hundred on uncertain date COCREATED
Tart flavouring a little bit sweet LEMONDROP
SEE 5 BANNISTER
A black mark? SMUT
Outstanding lakes in Britain polluted BRILLIANT
Outrage as a Guardian setter's reported APPAL
OBJECTIVE FACTUAL
A grim tortuous character performance RIGMAROLE
Music for dancing bears spanning prohibition era HABANERAS
Artists first impressed by youngsters CUBISTS
Touring East, passes on hand-rolled ciggies REEFERS
Equestrian controls REINS
Note group having to adjust again RESET
Scoundrel blocking intelligence agency's bugs CICADAS
Put back a receptacle in side feature of a hotel room? MINIBAR
Below par wage? SICKPAY
Artistic cover-up? FIGLEAF
BALANCED WELLROUNDED
Modern language degree, so it appears BASIC
Study setter's material DENIM
EBB WEAKEN
Short branch railway line SPUR
Solitary old liberal found in US city ONLY
STAIR POST NEWEL
Sauce recipes, tomato included PESTO
In a merry state, saw scope to include new festive scene SNOWSCAPE
Item of fake news CANARD
Opinion from left-wingers in straitened times almost never carefully examined STANCE
Degenerate Republican's falling asleep RELAPSE
Word from Paris now devised for a style of music MOTOWN
URGENT PRESSING
Proposal put in limp language PLAN
School's top people finally cracking Nutmeg's riddle SIEVE
Spades cut in dull card game OMBRE
Dishevelled engineers put back more grating ROUGHER
EGG CELL OVUM
Little Boy's younger and nastier cousin admitting personal problem to hospital doctor HBOMB
Lacking gravity? WEIGHTLESS
Set up a fake internet profile — sift cha (anag) CATFISH
Marital break-up DIVORCE
LEAFLET CIRCULAR
Hip fractured recently in pursuit PHILATELY
Ask for quiet work in retail outlet SHOP
SEE 4 PARTY
UNDYING IMMORTAL
Co-ordinates in order to get baubles and tinsel? DECORATIONS
Sets idly disposed are given a distinctive designation? STYLISED