December 24th 2017 - Independent Uk Cryptic

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December 24th 2017 Answers

Clue	Solution
Slashes and strikes head off	HACKS
Dickens, perhaps, about first in reading material, primarily at this time of year	CHRISTMAS
Soldier's equipment, notice, put in funeral carriage	BRIGADIER
Match about to be held in time	AGREE
Risk overlooking Society's opinion	TAKE
Approach to dieting: fines when found playing with ladle	SELFDENIAL
Vampire going to part of roof, one escaping conflict	BATTLE
Classic hero, male, hurries to encircle lake	HERACLES
Expressed rejection of award involving Member that's passed on	EMBODIED
Show of warmth here, principally?	HEARTH
Stream spectacle incorporating new celebration of verse	BURNSNIGHT
What one has in possession of sentence or sentience?	LIFE
Boss consuming article, a fruit	GUAVA
Italian conductor to search in Italy	TOSCANINI
More rational to keep cold reserve for white wines	SANCERRES
Exiled European king's men coming back into US state	CAROL
Has curtailed ill-temper about bill relating to decent housing	HABITABLE
Sport: strain in playing etc	CRICKET
Henry, interrupting Samuel, is 23	SHAM
I'm engaged in game, dismissing a second ringing of bell?	CHIMES
Artist having culture, missing note of esoteric activity	RAREFIED
3 vandalised, dropping head in contrition?	SHAMEFACED
Cunning I observed in French sick of war	MARTIAL
Covering prediction of female behaviour?	SHELL
Colt left you once clutching ornate saddle for horse	CLYDESDALE
Bungler's scheme ill organised	SCHLEMIEL
Broker, one thinking to erase first bit of tension	MEDIATOR
Something new at the pub - special offer?	BARGAIN
European royal family to come down on one British monarch	RAINIER
Garrick initially puts on Ibsen play	GHOSTS
John, perhaps, is 3	BOGUS
Vital clue involves powder	TALC

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