The Guardian - Quiptic crossword No 942 - Dec 4 2017

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A heavyweight takes on school ONETON
A ransom organised for rower OARSMAN
Beth's in a muddle, having a drink ABSINTHE
Efficiency personified in tanned gardener CAPABILITYBROWN
Exceptional luck — all new leading characters have style ELAN
Keynotes Kent hit differently in this novelty piano solo KITTENONTHEKEYS
Kirk tees off, with devotees of a TV series TREKKIES
Lid's replaced: Jane Austen's heroine has problems DILEMMAS
Making money by creating new words COINING
Mystery surrounding Atlantic island takes shape BERMUDATRIANGLE
One dreads having a case of the jitters ABUNDLEOFNERVES
One finds no sodium under here off the Scottish coast IONA
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Passion flower opens out, surprisingly, in draughts AIRFLOWS
Progress made on top road HEADWAY
Red admiral battered the Spanish side REALMADRID
Runners carry me to new distance recorders MILOMETERS
Security for the Italian undergraduate BAIL
Silver, for example, apparently causing disparity between young and old? AGEGAP
Singers with a number of alternatives? TENORS
Subsidy lady gets, partly for romantic poem IDYL
Travellers' train set in motion ITINERANTS
Trust with confidence about student over there RELYON
Unfortunately, silt got into part of vocal apparatus GLOTTIS
Zest for excitement ENTHUSIASM