The Guardian - Quick crossword No 16,404 - Dec 3 2022

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Clues Answers
A long time AGES
Animal fat SUET
Be entitled to MERIT
Begin (to play music?) STRIKEUP
Contaminated UNCLEAN
Crested parrot, often kept as a cage bird COCKATOO
Divine INTUIT
Go-getting ENTERPRISING
Intervene rudely BARGEIN
Item of cutlery — Norse despots (anag) DESSERTSPOON
Long thin strip RIBBON
Middle Eastern marketplace (sounds odd!) BAZAAR
Clues Answers
Military doctor or chaplain? NONCOMBATANT
Not fake ECHT
Part of a golf course GREEN
Person not willing or able to change DINOSAUR
Person one doesn't know well ACQUAINTANCE
Public OVERT
Residential district on the outskirts of a city SUBURB
Seventh heaven? NIRVANA
Supported by UPON
Take advantage (of) EXPLOIT
Thicket COPSE
Worldly TEMPORAL