The Guardian - Quiptic crossword No 1,245 - Sep 25 2023

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Absorb popular joke, we hear INGEST
Art of journalists suppressing noise of pain PROWESS
Authorise payment it legally covers in part ENTITLE
Brave page's favoured PLUCKY
Chide bachelor getting weak BLAME
Control in chimney originally needed on top of church INFLUENCE
Criminal group missing in action having abducted American fellow MAFIA
Dancing rumba in shadows UMBRA
Decorate bride more elaborately EMBROIDER
Dependent theme SUBJECT
Determined detectives in action DECIDED
Dish king and infant returned KEBAB
Doctor outclassed, lacking depth in hopeless endeavour LOSTCAUSE
Draft piece of writing by prisoner CONSCRIPT
English star left coat ENAMEL
Files a recipe with herb ARCHIVE
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Flash assistant SECOND
Fungus in wrinkle beneath chestnut's base TRUFFLE
Funny firm with male in charge COMIC
Individuals go around old place PEOPLE
Information from nerd put back on shelf KNOWLEDGE
It's rotten when a religious scholar went in front ADDLED
Loudly force open the loot PRIZE
Old man having part in conditional release PAROLE
Old revolutionary to question almost all the Treasury EXCHEQUER
Passable genealogy missing son DECENT
Patchy dish unadorned PIEBALD
Stops creeps regularly entering crafts ARRESTS
Take note of reasonable direction CLOCKWISE
Unfit male's horrible rage FULMINATE
Use of a revolving toilet with one in AVAIL
Without ceremony, rejected providing raise ERECT