The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 3,172 - Aug 7 2022

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Alliance broken, leaving one cold initially BLOC
American writer in West Germany, he travels ERNESTHEMINGWAY
Cane and single bullet for collection WHIPROUND
Certain to eat first of food with it -- a bellyful SURFEIT
Christmas book, middle torn out NOEL
City where group of witches go COVENTRY
Crooked when horizontal? LYING
Gradually soften what has melted THAW
Green water, ebbing NAIVE
Hairy spider's ending in drink WHISKERY
Has that woman visited unlicensed bar? SHEBEEN
Hideous thing where no rum and water served up GORGON
Holiday dance TRIP
Item of jewellery, article for troublemaker RINGLEADER
Large mammal with cry that's audible? WHALE
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Large vessel left empty, article scoffed by pig OILTANKER
Mark part of the intestine COLON
Narrator, one working in bank TELLER
One line redacted in documents, working for old PM WILSON
One touching prickly thorns briefly INSHORT
Pass wobbly desk to man DONTASKME
Person downing the spirits? EXORCIST
Resurgent publisher welcomes novel then ONTHEUP
Revolutionary queen I love for so long CHEERIO
Stick together -- or split CLEAVE
Strangely, one isn't a European ESTONIAN
Testament, word of introduction for play OTHELLO
Virtue has come after loss of business, I say! GOODNESSME
White pile ground down first SNOWDRIFT