The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,207 - May 25 2017

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Clues Answers
A small drink including minimum of table wine for starters ANTIPASTI
Army rank rejected in case of gerund being a lexicographical oddity GHOSTWORD
Avaricious type like godhead coming in earlier after greedy principal GOLDDIGGER
Break in end of paragraph where N-Z found to include L HALF
Channel slips by this? GULLY
Cutting hedges optional — sense avoiding the thorny bits? SELECTIVE
Druggie into Jailhouse Rock USER
Extreme agony among legation trained to embrace sport INGROWING
Faith being questioned in party heading for office, amid dubious claims ICONOCLASM
Free design smeared on grey DISENGAGED
Having scratched bottom, chance to embrace scent around rear of khazi, causing inflammation of nose RHINITIS
Label outlining conclusion of anal pedant STICKLER
Long canine in Dracula, I guess, as long when oddly shaped? SAUSAGEDOG
Man bit arm PIECE
Man of God in Ireland, eg reformed chief executive DIRECTORGENERAL
Clues Answers
Mistake reporting Italian river in Bangkok? TYPO
More war-wounded, number hard to forget? EARWORM
Salts with it in boxes CITRATES
Scrub backs in the lower area, various vertebrae ERASE
See 14 TOENAIL
See 23 TERM
See 25 HEARING
Slowly drain English river and Irish county WEARDOWN
Small group covering article in soil, turned over TRIAD
Specialist with bat or jemmy, perhaps? OPENER
Suspicion surrounding Beethoven's Ninth in electronic music TRANCE
Thespian, one supporting someone with a ladder JACOBI
Utter fool to get help SUCCOUR
Weird seeing something brown in blue SPOOKY