The Guardian - Quiptic - Jan 4 2021 Puzzle Solutions

 The Guardian - Quiptic crossword No 1,103 - Jan 4 2021 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
Act badly, losing lead in a board game	HALMA
Be grateful husband's abandoned cap and jumper from the 1970s	TANKTOP
Elizabeth knights old boy, long having earned top honour	ENNOBLE
Give short change in error	OVERSIGHT
Hard to follow abridged article from beginning to end	THROUGH
Harp on about fragment found in wreck	RUBITIN
Kept back popular book	INRESERVE
Luxury extension can perhaps ruin housing	EXTRAVAGANCE
Museum manager's almost rude about schedule	CURATOR
Novel appears heartlessly mean about journalist	NEWSPAPERMAN
Now and then, during poetic evening, gets extremely mushy about love	EVERYSOOFTEN
Nowadays on edge about lover	ADMIRER
On way to thrashing after Everton edges second penalty	ENROUTE
Organising fishing, gutted after young salmon head off	ARRANGING
Outside broadcast follows golf tournament	OPENAIR
Play tune by artist originally labelled 'unremarkable'	NEUTRAL
Push church seating back to accommodate end of cortege	SWEEP
Rambling work emails get skipped initially	AIMLESS
Reasons to control allowance of beer	RATIONALE
Rep confused old lady, pocketing first insurance payment	PREMIUM
Sad when leader's taken away to be thrown out	EJECTED
Seed diet oddly not for songbird	PIPIT
Special celebration for Socialist landlord, always pursuing end of need	REDLETTERDAY
State has endlessly dry area with dam in the middle	ARIZONA
Strategy also included a group of soldiers	PLATOON
Top grade carbon copy's acquired quickly	APACE
Wine seller's very trendy having the Queen on flipping books!	VINTNER
With team short, reserve comes on and equalises	SQUARES