The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 3rd December 2019

There are 15 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 3rd December 2019. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Less fresh challenger at first one defeated
AAcross 5:	Anti-unionism, note, very high
AAcross 9:	Other than bums may be contracted in this	NOTRUMPS
AAcross 10:	Hard to please in house: comfortable outside
AAcross 11:	On the fence, not a prison sentence?
AAcross 13:	Drug smuggler gets cross
AAcross 14:	Ship bearing Republican flag
AAcross 17:	Needleworker also poked into potato
AAcross 18:	Turn over bread
AAcross 20:	Naval officer casts losers adrift	FIRSTSEALORD
AAcross 23:	Tiny packets, as can hide insect
AAcross 24:	Running away from such elevated entertainment?
AAcross 24:	Running away from such elevated entertainment?
AAcross 25:	Empty, Charlie can eat cooked sea creature
AAcross 26:	Ask a person for leave
DDown 2:	Nothing in set for sale is a result of crime
DDown 3:	Binding disc inside inserted tube
DDown 4:	Acts in front of these empire builders
DDown 5:	Study of the population's church attendance?	MASSOBSERVATION
DDown 6:	Tree not doing so well, increasing numbers said
DDown 7:	Attack, capturing large crow
DDown 8:	Wrongly vague about broken ankle
DDown 12:	To look impressive, reduce someone's weight?	CUTAFIGURE
DDown 15:	Reducing a sort of loan
DDown 16:	You should be embarrassed home's far off	FORSHAME
DDown 19:	Chat in party's brilliant
DDown 21:	Holy Italian who is sacked just before Christmas
DDown 22:	Be wrong about hard climb