The Guardian - Quick crossword No 16,104 - Dec 17 2021

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(Consistent) losers NOHOPERS
(Work as) a cleaner CHAR
A 'deadly sin' ENVY
A small secluded room — eg NY rugs (anag) SNUGGERY
Become established TAKEROOT
Colliery (but not yours!) MINE
Deprive of food STARVE
Drive to succeed AMBITION
Fish similar to cod HAKE
Impudent whippersnapper JACKANAPES
Insightfulness ACUMEN
Lavish UNSTINTING
Clues Answers
Monster — huge thing BEHEMOTH
River flowing through York OUSE
Russian carriage drawn by three horses abreast TROIKA
Seen briefly GLIMPSED
Small biting fly GNAT
Smug COMPLACENT
Stirred about violently THRASHED
Swirl — she founded Christian Science (1866) EDDY
Tell RELATE
To do with trade and/or traders MERCANTILE
Type of sugar FRUCTOSE
Where Chaucer's Wife was coming from BATH