The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 3,088 - Dec 27 2020

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A fop on top! ASWELL
Article working for unknown author ANON
Bit dry, crackers on it SECTION
Brute sent over to collect large weight KILO
Challenge coming up in better adventure DARE
Change, with turner turning? EDIT
Dancing, skin becoming paler? TANGOING
Desirable thing to bank a metal -- this one's precious! PLATINUM
Energy drinks tasting awful initially in organic compound VITAMIN
Essence in tea urn, brewed NATURE
For example, duck in cricket perhaps? GAME
Gear selected by swimmer cyclin' over island BIKINI
In precarious position upon thin end of branch? OUTONALIMB
Kitchen device fixed to tap with purpose POPUPTOASTER
Lay out fashionable underwear INVEST
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Let down sack? DISAPPOINT
Nanny eluding shambles INDULGE
Nicest ripe bananas for beneficiaries RECIPIENTS
Note Wagnerian work bubbling up LATHERING
Recording new test case, listen in on evidence, firstly CASSETTETAPE
Remove flimsy tube attached to ceiling STRIPLIGHT
Rest put on top of food in waste collectors NAPPIES
Restriction left impression LIMITATION
Sailor and apostle wearing heavy cloth TARPAULIN
See the numbers drop away, every last one ESPY
Slow -- as a bullet? SLUGGISH
This writer after clear message that's implicit OVERTONE
Very little in supermarket in York TINY
Weakling, politician joining women's group WIMP
When one sees the most tourists spring up, possibly? HIGHSEASON