The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,406 - Jan 15 2018

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Clues Answers
A supporter of mine PITPROP
Accommodation and clothing denied to French revolutionary over time PIEDATERRE
Alliance of nearly everybody in Congress COALITION
Are responsible for Her Majesty meeting Blue Peter dog in private PERPETRATE
Collage of Matisse showing least variation SAMIEST
Consummate marriage? Not so! MATCHLESS
Conveyance of gas round back of Number 10 CHARIOT
Criminal cartel headed by leader of pheasant pluckers PLECTRA
Decent sandwiches start to entice relative NIECE
Depend on Jane name-dropping without ostentation AUSTERELY
Draw peacekeepers' fire with high explosive UNSHEATHE
Drug finally injected into bare elbow NUDGE
Each is ruefully discontented after night before EVERY
Filthy place ultimately became eyesore STYE
First to burst flaccid balloon BLIMP
Gracious Evita reportedly turned up to embrace workers Operatives
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Left-wingers in Italian towns campaigned hard and long ITCH
Maiden, with tact, ordered entree ADMITTANCE
Memory of country singer on the radio CACHE
Oddly shunned, said piteous goodbye ADIEU
Old boyfriend said to be member of orchestra OBOE
Pain of brill swallowing tip of hook ACHE
Port went off, in a manner of speaking ANTWERP
Present for discussion on second key food additive TABLESALT
Quietly handle extremely rare love potion PHILTRE
Recurrent saying in busy pubs? BOTTOMSUP
Sluggish ferrets regularly found beneath home INERT
Spooner's fake history published on the internet PODCAST
Suffuse disrobed limbs with beginnings of unalloyed eroticism IMBUE
Surreptitiously photograph your American manuscript PAPYRUS
Turn red, sat awkwardly on top with a leg on each side ASTRADDLE
Where Communists alone are elected to run neonatal facility INCUBATOR