The Guardian - Crossword Answers | 2023 09 25

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Determined detectives in action DECIDED
LIMITS BOUNDS
Check for bugs in room: it's a lottery SWEEP
Unfit male's horrible rage FULMINATE
Spinning stick, first to break little bulb DISTAFF
LOOK FOR SEEK
Draft piece of writing by prisoner CONSCRIPT
BEARING NORTH
Fixing drink in Scottish island? Good ARRANGING
Herald's up on one leg, out of control RAMPANT
Unpleasant correspondence HATEMAIL
Ready for Nigerian heretic to revert NAIRA
Food delivery service MEALSONWHEELS
English star left coat ENAMEL
Absorb popular joke, we hear INGEST
Art of journalists suppressing noise of pain PROWESS
Flash assistant SECOND
Control in chimney originally needed on top of church INFLUENCE
Dancing rumba in shadows UMBRA
Some hold refusal to be irritating ANNOY
ARCTIC POLAR
Patchy dish unadorned PIEBALD
POISON, AS ARSENIC
GENIALITY BONHOMIE
Stops creeps regularly entering crafts ARRESTS
Individuals go around old place PEOPLE
Information from nerd put back on shelf KNOWLEDGE
DESSERT AFTERS
Brave page's favoured PLUCKY
Demonstration, a nuisance, about to go off PROTEST
Winner's colour? GOLD
Meeting two holding hands at bar ENCOUNTER
New word — ie Mongols (anag) NEOLOGISM
Your lad misbehaving, Mary? OURLADY
Source of cod? FISHSHOP
Snort gram to get high and use violence STRONGARM
Chide bachelor getting weak BLAME
LADDER RUN
Essential qualities NATURES
IMMEASURABLY SMALL ATOMIC
Before surgery, medic gives some medicine DROPS
Time to fight? ENEMY
Half-hearted floor cleaner is a misery MOPER
Old man having part in conditional release PAROLE
Passable genealogy missing son DECENT
Underarm toiletry DEODORANT
Criminal group missing in action having abducted American fellow MAFIA
The Dog Star, part of Canis Major SIRIUS
Her Nibs used to take a dip here INKWELL
Resist, as Indian state profits start to tumble GOAGAINST
Dish king and infant returned KEBAB
Presumably he doesn't mind being sacked at Christmas SANTA
Close lane, source of confusion for a special occasion CONEOFF
Take note of reasonable direction CLOCKWISE
Spread round a square in town MARGATE
RUINED GONETOTHEDOGS
It's rotten when a religious scholar went in front ADDLED
Cut — meat CHOP
Nerveless behaviour, if dragons are flying around SANGFROID
DRUGGIE USER
12 up, astride a black horse ARABIAN
Decorate bride more elaborately EMBROIDER
Line showing high water level TIDEMARK
Convertible frequently held by red light SOFTTOP