The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 29,019 - Mar 16 2023

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Connoisseur engaging US vice-president and British PM in conversation? GOURMET
Country in India surrounded by wild bears SERBIA
Course: figure office has cancelled it in city TENDENCY
Cricketing format has trans­formed Indian state ODISHA
Custom of south-west India beat it! GOAWAY
Darn pain! STITCH
Dig ground initially bare? NUDGE
Dry tree made for squirrel SECRETE
Finish off muck guzzling the stew DITHER
Good capacity for curry GROOM
Honour girl crossing over the hill and sea GOLDMEDAL
Hot drink, case of cocoa fed to a sheep AMERICANO
Indian dish greater in US city BALTIMORE
Inhospitable housing union men built with pillars COLUMNED
Item of furniture, very Indian? DIVAN
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Lover tickling Maria, not Oscar INAMORATO
Mean for name, say, to have an M removed in Indian city AGRA
New Delhi bad, or unsentimental HARDBOILED
Popular Indian leader, shut your face! MODISH
Recollection of passage from intermezzo, so romantically, tenderly played AMOROSO
Ring doctor about card game OMBRE
Scientific study of scalp thus prodding nit ASTROPHYSICS
Soother, eg Assam? BACKRUB
Supporters voted, as a Liberal stuffed by Conservative ADVOCATES
The end of my eight gates ajar, all opening OMEGA
Twice make for poser FASHIONMODEL
Unsatisfying resolution where claimant I gathered has got cross ANTICLIMAX
Voices heard in paper, reportedly? CHOIR
Wheeze while visiting doctor GASP
Wobbly flab in store where one's fed breakfast and evening meal HALFBOARD