The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,948 - Oct 10 2019

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A game way of raising money TESTIMONIAL
Acts like a predatory cat, eating small sweets? MOUSSES
Angel who's retiring? BACKER
Birches planted round Northern resort CANNES
Canon's turn to enter form of prayer PREBENDARY
Cave in reserve with sunfish SUBSIDE
Celebrated instrument led off — it's what cellists do STRADDLE
Complaint when temperature taken by pushy sort TYPHUS
Conclude a wall covering is sterile INFERTILE
Cruel, miserable lives and habitual response SADISTIC
Crusades staged for models that have been around a bit USED
Different nations meeting RACES
Firm retires lousy underwear maker CORSETIER
Gloomy, beset by raging sea, surrender SATURNINE
Live by river? Look for duck BERGANDER
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Members of artistic movement more than once chucked into ditches CUBISTS
Mocking short French consul's dancing SCORNFUL
No room here for a drink BEERGARDEN
One leaves to throw up a meal LUNCH
Poetic inactivity in Lidl (Essex) IDLESSE
Relative almost said 'Neat' UNCLUTTERED
Second eleven starts acquiring game scorer SCRIBE
See 12 CARS
See 6 ARMS
Sharp, visible illegal tackle to get rid of ball INSIGHTFUL
Stand on branches? Americans do so, rightly BEAR
Swimmer offers resistance in support of gymnast BREAM
Vegetable feature found in unknown ICU configuration ZUCCHINI
Wood almost burnt out: the finale for three months EMBER
Wow academic bishop with currency of very high distinction CORDONBLEU