The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 3,243 - Dec 17 2023

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Alien caught by huge slap COSMETIC
Always turning up in Tupperware, vegetables EVER
Bird dressin'? ROBIN
Bread brought home -- what might go in sandwich? BACON
Burden is America's? ONUS
Cigar that may go to one's head? PANAMA
Classic tune really, although different originally TRAD
Clear up seaside city, did you say? BRIGHTEN
Coin -- nicker? COPPER
Credit is doubled -- catastrophe! CRISIS
Current old king to his friends? EDDY
European set for first place POLEPOSITION
Extremely disappointed, as a fish might be? GUTTED
Fat chap fed last of caviar LARD
Get a tight hold on unusual round ball, finally STRANGLE
Latitude, see, where children get together in New York? PLAYDATE
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Like seabird in the wake of ship? ASTERN
Magic writing skill? SPELLING
Man, say, in silver, oddly ISLE
Milan team fail to score in netting zero -- half-time? INTERMISSION
Month filled with toil ultimately, had a rest SLEPT
Nothing wrong in one piece ALLRIGHT
Out-of-this-world sighting, evidence of poltergeist in kitchen? FLYINGSAUCER
Plant, anything but a girl's best friend! SHAMROCK
Powerful type in twilight, free to roam WEIGHTLIFTER
Suspect recalled trapping good man KNIGHT
Swallow nesting, establishing shelters INGEST
Taste insect that's rolled over TANG
Thoroughfare went on broadcast? ROAD
Typical colours STANDARD
Where flag found -- like that of Saudi Arabia, mostly? GREEN
Worker in stone alters rocks SLATER