The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2104

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Clues Answers
A case of champagne? Great! ACE
A dish — such as curry? hot stuff
Boat sure to be wrecked — by this person? SABOTEUR
Business with a blonde, we hear AFFAIR
Christmas lunch? It didn’t go down too well TURKEY
Clear company man getting monthly payment COHERENT
Councillor stupidly alarmed? Not at first ALDERMAN
Cunning scheme making you gasp WHEEZE
Depict duke fighting back DRAW
Doled out by Royal Engineers, or kept back? RESERVED
Excite female anger FIRE
Exercises, so ready for trip to Cuba? PESO
Fly around Pole? That’s a joke JEST
Clues Answers
Handle force in Panama perhaps HAFT
Honour half-cut Venetian judge VENERATE
Idiotic order to a chap facing bull TOREADOR
In recession, LA rents rise rapidly SPIRAL
Join American in Florence on vacation FUSE
Long to finish early in 2022 perhaps YEAR
Nervously edge near deserter RENEGADE
Reportedly gave birth to a wild creature BOAR
Ron returning with girl to identify place of D-Day landings NORMANDY
Safe place for Hardy heroine to cross river FORTRESS
Snooty Isabella did appear in part la-di-da
Spike article about king PIERCE
What about grabbing old garden tool? HOE