The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,856 - Sep 7 2022

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About to run race? She'll tell you all about it! RACONTEUR
Act in your own best interests: perform singles with comics at fair PLAY
Admirers cherish grand feature of Dracula FANGS
Artist has to combat endless depression WARHOL
Barber upset oil initially on cloth provided FIGARO
Clown might start to break wild animal? What a nut! COCODEMER
College poet's superior to church bully COERCE
Confess drinking wine is outrageous SHOCKING
Cover charge? PREMIUM
Desert feed involved hollowed-out coconut DEFECT
Discharge sailor in arch ploy CATARRH
Gang member's beastly sound overwhelming quiet GREASER
Head back with close friend in America, showing easy good nature BONHOMIE
Horse racing establishment ultimately in decline TROTTING
Imperfect article on Jack — twisted etc REJECT
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In code it yields Hades, perhaps DEITY
Just what a smoker needs: Henry to go off the rails ASTRAY
Ladies do climax when holding nylon skirts! HENNIGHT
Lush local choir improvised no end ALCOHOLIC
Motel: it's about providing a recurring theme LEITMOTIF
Notebooks where one enters criminal riches CAHIERS
Quiet spot, one in outskirts of Aachen, for a museum ASHMOLEAN
See 6 ONES
See 6 across CARDS
See 6 across RIGHT
Stein's latest criminal picture? MUGSHOT
Stimulating sort of 8? JOGGING
Uncool underwear THERMALS
US city in south, one that is protected by alien god SANDIEGO
Vision of Barney nursing sore wound FORESIGHT