The Independent Crossword Answers December 30, 2022

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Across

Low-scoring draw this No.10 clinched? NEON
For good measure, blocks comic uses with gag to subdue backchat SLIPGAUGES
Stopping at Test ground, into such a contest? ATTRITIONAL
Name assumed by rare black cuckoo ANI
Yard probing vulgar residue from power station FLYASH
A jolly playful nibble from Spooner! BUNFIGHT
First on with broadcast BESTREW
But Rose is one of our best! ANAGRAM
Retired London lawyer has no time for model EXEMPLAR
Unbridled lust of prominent American partner FLOTUS
It’s easy to confuse a chatterer PIE
Brush with groups of lawmen, there for the taking? POSSESSABLE
Hard to rip up books with covering letter for my boss DEEPROOTED
It provides the necessary arrangement of keys BANK

Down

Cut squarely for two, not hard to clinch ton – expecting a little lower? INCALF
For which US writer overlooks essay? POETRY
In retrospect, someone partial to Prime-ministerial blunders BLAIR
Italian sauces giving us the constitution of candyfloss? SPUNSUGAR
Hotel laid on the works dinner in Oxford? HALL
Farm steward snarls with rage evicting owls GRANGER
Not a word one associates with hand rearing acacia? SHITTIM
Publicises tour – and its point of departure? AIRSTRIP
Lean or porky? LIE
Train-spotters’ gala perhaps elevating fellow most in need of support FRAILEST
Factory that exploits reforms in two phases SWEATSHOP
“Jump between the sheets with energy for a ****” (did you hear what I did there?) BLEEPED
Surrealist seventies TV banned from art school SIENESE
Worth scrubbing jacket potato ALU
This chap’s against prejudice TOBIAS
Devious, just like Serpent, to keep one working away SNEAKY
Online service given boost by messaging system TELEX
The usual score when playing piano and horn PARP