The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2023 01 10

crossword answers
Clue Answer
POSITION IN SOCIETY STATUS
Fungus shape MOULD
Raven, dog and rodent eating new fruit BLACKCURRANT
PART OF A POEM STANZA
Superbrain GENIUS
Off-colour and about to enter shaft RACY
Marry Hitch? Perhaps, but it's not indicative of a steady heart ARRHYTHMIC
SEE 6 DICK
Superior of a religious community ABBESS
Bad feeling of many against independence leader — one from Italy, maybe HOSTILITY
On reflection, gang needs to accept bereavement to flourish BLOSSOM
Bill's comparatively astute FLYER
ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS NATURE
Be very expensive COSTABOMB
LIVELY ANIMATED
ORIENTAL SABRE SCIMITAR
Recklessness of car almost hitting a centre of population AUDACITY
Honourable dignitary's after power lift PRAISEWORTHY
Take criminally bad union leader before court ABDUCT
Decoration somehow made large MEDAL
A second city's somersaulting dance SALSA
CHINESE COMMUNIST LEADER MAOZEDONG
COIFFURE HAIRDO
ENGAGING HIRING
Playing clarinet and briefly leaving performance RECITAL
Powder used by first alchemists TALC
Drop gets player finally into touch TRICKLE
POUT MOUE
DRY TEETOTAL
Has life in Cairns destroyed flowers? NARCISSI
Paying for fine inlaid top furniture item PROFITABLE
Old playwright having no bottle has eg a whisky accompaniment COWARDICE
SKIN COMPLAINT ACNE
BUST BROKEN
ARMS SMUGGLER GUNRUNNER
Lever used by pilot JOYSTICK
Vehicle's way over left side of carriageway, by a river STREETCAR
Light composition of Rice, incorp­orating classical composer CHANDELIER
Nietzsche or Engels FRIEDRICH