The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,674 - Feb 7 2022

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Clues Answers
Advantage gained by Dutch champion during preliminary race HEADSTART
Axe stunted trees SCRUB
Best alfresco function? OUTDO
Bishop put on garment over part of nun's habit BARB
Boozer drinking hooch finally fired SHOT
Cambridge mathematician with right approach to resistance WRANGLER
Catholic about to practise set of beliefs CREDO
Clumsy model sat for Rembrandt's first great painting OLDMASTER
Cowboy's money put on a jumper BUCKAROO
Crook caught at end of Ramadan in Asian sultanate CONMAN
Dealer charged outside church taken in by cops MERCHANT
Deserve to operate as a dockside worker STEVEDORE
Drink from California and Virginia CAVA
EU slang involved in a Catholic prayer ANGELUS
Extremely suggestive text sent to musicians SEXTET
Fibre taken from new sails SISAL
First-class seminar on one chapter CLASSIC
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Fish swallowing large lump of earth CLOD
Head of sport leaving great magazine COMIC
Head of urology given endlessly stretchy tool UTENSIL
Hornby's construction system missing no place in Saudi Arabia MECCA
Impresario slowly taking in capital OSLO
Informers with partners impounding ship NARKS
Maggot first in beef to turn BOT
Millions leaving real snowmen to melt in US city NEWORLEANS
Nudity abroad is out of order UNTIDY
Old horse's kick HACK
Riddles about Pluto absorbing artist CHARADES
Scotsman and journalist together working initially in a part of Greece MACEDONIA
Silver coin in tin belonging to someone from Barcelona? CATALAN
Snigger about raised surface of biscuit GINGERSNAP
Southern sailors going north catch first of piranha fish SPRATS
Spanish poet coming from Mallorca LORCA