The Guardian Cryptic Crossword December 18 2023 Answers (12/18/23)

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword December 18, 2023 Answers

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Clue
Something in the garden for pet owl to chew
Extremely plaintive, desperate appeal for money abroad
Time for everyone to pass on their knowledge
New to drink, run empire badly
Notice love is a great bother
Having nothing to face? (5-6)
Died after aerial battle: going to heaven?
Two shortly become confused in silly talk
Hotel room may have this ban on short skirt
Showing arrogance, paid sportsman perhaps duly sacked
Adds something against eulogies
Tiny vegetable, and not a whole fruit
Newly initiated into food authority
A hard growth seen on oak
PM meeting an indigenous American
It may be close to the church, or a serious distance
Undeserving rich and their pampered pets?
Eloquent preacher's year in church
Nymph has bedroom that creates sound effects
Could this suggest daughter only nine? Imagine!
Best, perhaps, granny's hairpiece
Foreign character turns up in Paris park
Put off seeing how library books are displayed?
Unusual way to the mountains
S for Sovereign
Scotsman, the first person that's regularly driven over
Arsenal supporter heading off into New York women's house
Something done on the brass perhaps, causing some friction
Perhaps dog at college a bloomer
Certificate Foreign Office employee doesn't complete
Told a tale about drug being craved
Man a terrible tsar? Not very

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