The Guardian - Quiptic crossword No 943 - Dec 11 2017 Crossword Answer

The Guardian - Quiptic crossword No 943 - Dec 11 2017 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
A correspondent welcoming the beginning of chatty part of letter	ASCENDER
A nurse inhales oxygen and another gas	ARGON
Analyse fertiliser close to dairy	STUDY
Arranged to get Ian drug deal	NEGOTIATE
Composer's arrangement for butchers	SCHUBERT
Conservative pinching the other fellow's idea	THEORY
Cooking facility used by topless witches	OVEN
Country returning financial help to Northern Ireland	INDIA
Dancing bear, 16, climbing in Scottish city	ABERDEEN
Doctor catching a fish for sweetheart	DARLING
Dug round opening in consecrated ground	MINCED
Envelope cannot contain nut	PECAN
Escort coming in at 10 (Danish time)	ATTENDANT
Fashion model glad to get first prize	GOLDMEDAL

Clues	Answers
Fish swallowing Jonah's heart seen, strangely, to get smaller	CONDENSE
Furious to see untidy English garden	ENRAGED
Instruction to keep writing on relative's hat	STETSON
Large hole made by large box found by river	CRATER
Learnt about leasing arrangement	RENTAL
Locality with space for opening of volleyball clubs	ENVIRONS
Nonsense talked by one crowing next to flower?	POPPYCOCK
Piled up special riding kit to give to leaders of equestrian display	STACKED
Pilot has crashed into medical centre	HOSPITAL
Right to reject poet's third book as inaccessible?	REMOTE
Soprano and tenor in poverty prepared to have babies	NESTED
Tear into empty takeaway that's fashionable	TRENDY
Want to give maiden name to daughter	NEED
Where men go to ruin pants with a lager top?	URINAL