The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 20th December 2021

There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 20th December 2021. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Husband enters to wreck party
AAcross 5:	Largely woolly letter from abroad?
AAcross 8:	Sort of pipe Spooner couldn't confuse!
AAcross 8:	Sort of pipe Spooner couldn't confuse!
AAcross 9:	Hint to politicians in the know	CLUEDUP
AAcross 11:	Job done, cabbie, but now I'm confused	YOUVEGOTMETHERE
AAcross 12:	Level in cup match, right?
AAcross 13:	Celtic fan, perhaps, sawing a leg off
AAcross 17:	Come ashore, admitting being a laird?
AAcross 18:	School is excellent, but beginning to go bad
AAcross 20:	Many thousands of moves taking ages	AMONTHOFSUNDAYS
AAcross 23:	What children learn early: they can get through a door without opening it
AAcross 24:	An increasing problem ties boy in knots
AAcross 25:	Believe this may be on the cards
AAcross 26:	Size of old temporary housing
DDown 2:	Extraordinarily powerful article Poirot was on to
DDown 3:	Old soldier heading off demonstrator
DDown 4:	Mischievous spirit to depart, limpin' around
DDown 5:	Doctor taking holiday: that's a relief
DDown 6:	Policemen in some unit reorganised
DDown 7:	Automobile seen in Kansas City
DDown 8:	Sphere in which your fortune may lie
DDown 10:	Unrealistic expectation of high tea?	PIEINTHESKY
DDown 14:	Beach pebble or rock
DDown 15:	Copy restriction? Not at first
DDown 16:	Nanny's nanny?
DDown 19:	Put money in, having lost one's shirt?
DDown 21:	External route diverted
DDown 22:	Start getting leg fixed