The Guardian - Quiptic crossword No 1,050 - Dec 30 2019 Crossword Answer

The Guardian - Quiptic crossword No 1,050 - Dec 30 2019 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Miserable benefit payment almost complete	DOLEFUL
Moll lisps about footwear	PLIMSOLLS
Part of licence covers air conditioning	CHARACTER
Posed with revolutionary by left luggage	SATCHEL
Praise old key	EXALT
Priest lifted dead part of flower	PETAL
Rejected seed is cause of downfall	NEMESIS
Relative walks about	STEPSON
Singular desire to be stylish	SWISH
Spooner's crow key to dish	ROASTBEEF
Squeezes fish to get drink	MILKSHAKE
Stick out for proposal	PROJECT
Strange beer I eventually swallowed	EERIE
Take in party with suitable clothing	ADOPT
Try to surpass bird consumed around start of lunch	EMULATE
Walking fish lax about accepting love and fate	AXOLOTL

Clues	Answers
Artist returning coins beginner produced for heavenly being	ARCHANGEL
Before exercise day man cracked	CHAPPED
Caught alternative free gold substitute, initially in aisles	CORRIDORS
Criminal copper inflamed about press release	CULPRIT
Cult adopting unique selling point is dubious	SUSPECT
Disgusting gangster swallowed by sea creature	SQUALID
Drain out bottom	NADIR
Drug treated stye sac	ECSTASY
Engineer closes its biannual events	SOLSTICES
Forthright six-footer by ditch	TRENCHANT
Gives in regarding fast son	RELENTS
Gun feature regularly seen in slingshots	SIGHT
Helping European recreational vehicle stuck in grass	SERVING
Mask censors raised, concealing kisses	NECKS
Material of knitted angora with unknown ingredient	ORGANZA
Meet female and settle back in state	SATISFY