The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 18th December 2023

There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 18th December 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Something in the garden for pet owl to chew
AAcross 6:	Extremely plaintive, desperate appeal for money abroad
AAcross 9:	Time for everyone to pass on their knowledge
AAcross 10:	New to drink, run empire badly	ENPRIMEUR
AAcross 11:	Notice love is a great bother
AAcross 12:	Having nothing to face?
AAcross 14:	Died after aerial battle: going to heaven?
AAcross 15:	Two shortly become confused in silly talk
AAcross 16:	Hotel room may have this ban on short skirt
AAcross 19:	Showing arrogance, paid sportsman perhaps duly sacked
AAcross 22:	Adds something against eulogies
AAcross 23:	Tiny vegetable, and not a whole fruit
AAcross 24:	Newly initiated into food authority
AAcross 26:	A hard growth seen on oak
AAcross 27:	PM meeting an indigenous American
AAcross 28:	It may be close to the church, or a serious distance
DDown 1:	Undeserving rich and their pampered pets?	FATCATS
DDown 2:	Eloquent preacher's year in church
DDown 3:	Nymph has bedroom that creates sound effects
DDown 4:	Could this suggest daughter only nine? Imagine!
DDown 5:	Best, perhaps, granny's hairpiece
DDown 6:	Foreign character turns up in Paris park
DDown 7:	Put off seeing how library books are displayed?
DDown 8:	Unusual way to the mountains
DDown 13:	S for Sovereign
DDown 16:	Scotsman, the first person that's regularly driven over
DDown 17:	Arsenal supporter heading off into New York women's house
DDown 18:	Something done on the brass perhaps, causing some friction
DDown 19:	Perhaps dog at college a bloomer
DDown 20:	Certificate Foreign Office employee doesn't complete
DDown 21:	Told a tale about drug being craved
DDown 25:	Man a terrible tsar? Not very	IAN