The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1726

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Clues Answers
A man with a wicked wife gets a good deal a lot
A pot's one unusual kitchen item TEASPOON
Army officer to slip and go to ground COLLAPSE
Bird's preserved food? Could be a problem can of worms
Business folk are primarily chaps AGENTS
Close friend to regale excitedly alter ego
Cut short weed DOCK
Drug supplied by ambassador meeting politician HEMP
Duck beginning to dabble with hesitation in river ODER
Eat quickly and run off BOLT
Extend piece of writing with publicist's introduction PROTRACT
Extracted from mine, the necessary chemical ETHENE
Clues Answers
Harbour drink left PORT
Journalist has penned awfully drab sort of book HARDBACK
Letters or cards? CHARACTERS
Most fretful sorceress, one participating in experiment TWITCHIEST
Red-nosed drunk is given support ENDORSED
Ruler good, following relations KING
School outside American station EUSTON
Servant, awful brute about 50 BUTLER
Sit awkwardly in breeze, becoming upset DISTRAUGHT
Star seen in massive gallery VEGA
Surrounded by fairies, she dies PERISHES
Terrible failures that could make celeb sad DEBACLES