The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,638 - Dec 27 2021

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Clues Answers
A city in Tanganyika, doesn't matter which ANY
Being old, will droop WILT
Boodle's mark BLOT
Brambles not right as an environment for raising wildlife and fools BAMBOOZLES
Brew beer, only half jug EWER
Clothes on fire? BLAZERS
Dine out on little money? That's vulgar INDECENT
East German in mature comeback RIPOSTE
Enough said, every now and then, on match ADEQUATE
Essential sign in heart oddly ignored INNER
Group competently curbs rising disorder ASSEMBLY
Helen and Ruth unclothed by champion of alternative medicine ELEUTHERO
In the Mao revolution ATHOME
Is it best to have laid out a stall that's disgusting? LASTLAUGH
Live or die, that's come out nicely DWELL
Nice day, on reflection, for correspondent JOURNO
No portrait of elaborate lap dances LAND
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One's art without frames, extremely versatile and daring NERVE
Perhaps too bad a mark APOSTROPHE
Portsmouth & Co OSTIA
Pound discovered in a bath robe THROB
Powder room makes sleepyhead somehow appear dishevelled LOOKAMESS
Religious people gathering shells, essentially as ornaments JEWELS
See 24 SCAPE
Showing Europe's upset about vote EXPOSURE
Source of stone that is sought by hunters QUARRY
Terribly quaint and ultimately obsolete ANTIQUE
The hapless are to speak ORATE
They say thin is right LIEN
Turbulent river in Europe, as far as the Guardian is concerned RIOTOUS
Up or down detector RADAR
Working majority of 13 across or 3 TRIO
Writer's book contains clever mixed metaphors TOMSHARPE