The Guardian - Quiptic crossword No 1,139 - Sep 13 2021

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Clues Answers
Bag first of berths in ship BINLINER
Change poor diet EDIT
Compete to get side watching VIEWING
Connected gangster fibbed ALLIED
Contentious young woman making first appearance on American board DEBATABLE
Corresponds with peers EQUALS
Curate claps wildly for lavish show SPECTACULAR
Decorated head of show horse with diamonds SEQUINED
Essential element of returned contract summarised in part MUST
Frank's about to follow after SINCERE
Horror of battle across river FRIGHT
Jolly little woman with bottle JOVIAL
Judges applying seriously exacting sanctions initially to leaderless hordes ASSESSES
Laze round holding nothing ZERO
Clues Answers
Liberal extracted from dark side BACK
Old priest is suppressing alien oaths EXPLETIVES
Oracles foretell unrest developing FORTUNETELLERS
Perfectionist left in label STICKLER
Persistent customers have registered over ninety individual complaints to start with CHRONIC
Petrified, X covers up mistakes with deception TERRORSTRICKEN
Rocket delayed after case redesigned ESCALATE
Second wine is grim MOROSE
Separate dance numbers getting shocking treatment DISCONNECT
Short road in Paris, one we French find disastrous RUINOUS
Skeletal pub in space SKINNY
Small operation involving new countenance SANCTION
Team reveals secondary activities SIDESHOWS
Unconventional text in sonnet not entirely fanciful NONEXISTENT