The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 29,310 - Feb 20 2024

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Clues Answers
A point above 18 in game before final pass forward SEMICOLON
Add fatty stuff to heart of cabbage, say BUTTER
Ambassador's immersed in European matter in Greek city EPHESUS
Conservative regret about pathetic campaign CRUSADE
Doesn't finish some panda food LEAVES
Endlessly distrust the writer taken in by penchant for verbal ambiguity DOUBLEMEANING
Flits with dashing young men around small Roman square GALLIVANTS
Fly like some insects, or bat FLUTTER
Food in repast is oddly deficient EATS
Inflict corporal punishment on kid, for example LEATHER
Invariably costly meal, it's said, extended by indefinite period LUNCHEON
Is highly moving in theatre part FLIES
It's not easy catching variety, American counterpart of 24 HARVARD
Kind of 18, or kind of blue OXFORD
Like husband found in a fornicating situation? ABASHED
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Mark similar to 18, but higher APOSTROPHE
Maximally exposed, first covering up hole BLEAKEST
Minded after power is handed over PRESENTED
Monarch displayed in museum – initially housed show in ground-floor extensions VERANDAHS
One among 6, 25 amalgamated, or what divides them COMMA
Originality of points, three of them in all NEWNESS
Passing white's soaring over grass ELAPSING
Put in situation hard to get out of? Possibly, providing one red's OK SNOOKERED
Put out eggs – almost leave out scrambled OVULATE
Rowdy drunk driver admitting nothing CAROUSER
Secure arms from Communist Russia TRUSS
Snaps emerging branches SHOOTS
Start of tribute about stupid Italian poet TASSO
Tyrannical ruler found in previous answer, after all IVAN