The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 20th December 2022

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 20th December 2022. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Hopping mad — we get VAT on traditional British fare	MEATAND
AAcross 5:	See 1	TWOVEG
AAcross 9:	Now their work became less acceptable	WORETHIN
AAcross 10:	One type of racing at venue for another — largely a shambles
AAcross 12:	Slightly backtracking, show deference to biblical couple going steady	ONANEVENKEEL
AAcross 15:	Escapes, just about, on hearing wife's in the vicinity	NEARMISSES
AAcross 17:	Bill's old trouble
AAcross 19:	Neckwear could be junk, mostly
AAcross 20:	Plant ground more millet
AAcross 22:	Checking work from one of the Royals playing game?
AAcross 26:	They may be in bed — one's about to get up
AAcross 27:	Like a teacher, used role-play at one college
AAcross 28:	'That OK then?' Lad rudely: 'I'm not interested!'	TALKTO
AAcross 29:	See 28	THEHAND
DDown 1:	Admit money originally cut
DDown 2:	Dangerous to leave hotel, which is spacious
DDown 3:	One fashionable piece of writing? Could be yes and no
DDown 4:	Countryman's pronounced stoop
DDown 6:	Nag's sounding off — wife cross
DDown 7:	Cutting through corruption, start to speak to meeting in a deeply emotional way
DDown 8:	Sentimental slush — see right through the German beauty queen?	GOODLOOKER
DDown 11:	Poet taking sweetheart round Spanish city
DDown 13:	Protestant archbishop's first proscription overturned — past it sadly
DDown 14:	Can you connect with this form of humour?
DDown 16:	Half, nearly three quarters of words explosive	SEMTEX
DDown 18:	United lifted in first leg a long time ago
DDown 21:	Move French regularly interrupting at the back
DDown 23:	Tenor Domingo's initial break
DDown 24:	Given up before, this smoker
DDown 25:	Holed in one side, catamaran partly capsized