The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 29,187 - Sep 28 2023

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As far as US leader's concerned, getting invaded by Germany is ruled out FORBIDDEN
Banks perhaps following current news host INNKEEPER
Blithe Spirit's leading character back in the country SYRIA
Bosses regularly filling bigwig's drink quickly TOSSOFF
Called for managed fund to save mobile phone company pounds NEEDFUL
Condemn point put in plain language DECRYPT
Country's financial district gets universal love, almost ECUADOR
eg McCartney, Boy George at first, and a member of Morrissey's group? SONGSMITH
Flipping anxious old monarch failing to provide items for scoffing fools? DESSERTSERVICE
Fun for eg young Boris, having surprisingly low mental age ETONWALLGAME
Green vehicle reversing into rural settlement TESLA
Invalid thinking 'I'm going to smoke last of tobacco up' ILLOGIC
Making valueless nude? Monet is in Giverny framing it DEMONETISING
Maybe Holly Hunter wants filling in sandwich SHRUB
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Novelist pens mad, inauthentic and pedestrian advice GREENCROSSCODE
Opera company led by Latin American revolutionary NABUCCO
Refusal to accommodate crooked car dealer who breaks the law NARCO
Reliable staff one's hired to work in TV or film SOUNDMAN
River Seine's banks not straight FALSE
Said why tucking into crab dish could be a danger, in the main CHARYBDIS
Say butter's rejected, getting this instead? MARGE
Sweet soldier brought in kind of battery for defence APOLOGIA
Terrible triteness has the capacity to fascinate INTERESTS
Train strike's beginning, which creates worries EXERCISES
Try lots of port and case of amontillado, guzzling gallons HAVEAGO
Vacuous twerps without intelligence? TWITS
Very brief rule of old Indian scripture VEDIC
Whence two gentlemen came and left to get sedative VERONAL