The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,945 - Dec 20 2022

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Clues Answers
'That OK then?' Lad rudely: 'I'm not interested!' TALKTO
Admit money originally cut MOWN
Bill's old trouble ADO
Can you connect with this form of humour? LAVATORIAL
Checking work from one of the Royals playing game? PROOFREADING
Countryman's pronounced stoop DEIGN
Cutting through corruption, start to speak to meeting in a deeply emotional way VISCERALLY
Dangerous to leave hotel, which is spacious AIRY
Escapes, just about, on hearing wife's in the vicinity NEARMISSES
Given up before, this smoker ETNA
Half, nearly three quarters of words explosive SEMTEX
Holed in one side, catamaran partly capsized ACED
Hopping mad — we get VAT on traditional British fare MEATAND
Like a teacher, used role-play at one college DIDACTIC
Move French regularly interrupting at the back AFFECT
Clues Answers
Nag's sounding off — wife cross WHINNY
Neckwear could be junk, mostly BOA
Now their work became less acceptable WORETHIN
One fashionable piece of writing? Could be yes and no ANTONYMS
One type of racing at venue for another — largely a shambles FIASCO
Plant ground more millet IMMORTELLE
Poet taking sweetheart round Spanish city OVIEDO
Protestant archbishop's first proscription overturned — past it sadly ANABAPTIST
See 1 TWOVEG
See 28 THEHAND
Sentimental slush — see right through the German beauty queen? GOODLOOKER
Slightly backtracking, show deference to biblical couple going steady ONANEVENKEEL
Tenor Domingo's initial break DRIFT
They may be in bed — one's about to get up IRISES
United lifted in first leg a long time ago STONEAGE