The Guardian - Quick crossword No 15,197 - Jan 22 2019 Crossword Answer

The Guardian - Quick crossword No 15,197 - Jan 22 2019 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Newscaster's reading aid	AUTOCUE
Nouveau riche	PARVENU
Person providing hospitality	HOSTESS
Relax one's efforts	LETUP
Repeated prayers	LITANY
River and department of south-east France	ISERE
Seabird with a short neck and brightly coloured bill	PUFFIN
Sit with one's limbs spread out	SPRAWL
Something put into something else	INSET
Sweet-sounding	MELLIFLUOUS
Three-dimensional object shaped like a corkscrew	HELIX
Treasure of unknown ownership	TROVE
Uneven	PATCHY

Clues	Answers
Arbiter (anag) — snack	RAREBIT
Balance — composure	POISE
Chesty (anag) — tool	SCYTHE
Dejected after a failure	CRESTFALLEN
Dictionary	LEXICON
FT index — flirty under-the-table play	FOOTSIE
Gobbled up	EATEN
Group of words forming part of a sentence	PHRASE
Head monk	ABBOT
Joyce novel	ULYSSES
Linking of speaker's mouth movements and voice in filmed recordings	LIPSYNC
Loch monster?	NESSIE
Mushroom	EXPAND