The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,982 - Dec 16 2018

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A shift in roles leaving only odd characters in high spirits ARCHANGELS
Burden lies with you and me? ONUS
Butcher I meet at 4pm perhaps? TEATIME
Captain, delicate winger? SKIPPER
Cheerless poet in retrospect DRAB
Close door at the end, blocking various aisles AIRLESS
Cold-blooded killer I call ambitious! ASPIRING
Country houses one's making somewhere in Asia INDONESIA
Dancing as sign of being home from beach holiday? TANGOING
Everything forgotten by diva with first of high notes, perhaps? CASH
Family business LINE
Following drive, a companion leaves SPINACH
Generous sack filled with rubbish I gather BIGHEARTED
Girl -- Frenchman going after one IRENE
Greek letter, a couple of pages in the spirit of an Egyptian KAPPA
Issue certificate, ultimately leading to job EMISSION
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It, for example, starts to consume everything, say PRONOUNCE
Jack beams when speaking? RAISE
Lovely job of a police officer ARRESTING
Make a bundle tilt inside container CLEANUP
Marvellous thing, might one be blown away by it? DYNAMITE
Merchandise as yet not shifting STOCKSTILL
Miss married to small man from Italy SIGNORE
Old German instrument working SAXON
One trying to make others happy, suffering relapse PLEASER
Part of oven on, extra switches for gas XENON
Salute remedy after cutting oxygen SALVO
Singular instrument needing strings slackened? SHARP
Tester of water temperature gulping drink, this food's hot TOASTIE
Two animals -- requirement for four or six, perhaps? CRICKETBAT
Where customs officers may search, whatever happens INANYCASE
With lead shot, gun finally loaded LADEN