| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| Artist with common desire for cultural entertainment? | OPERA |
| Challenge importance of injury caused by paper stiffener? | CUTDOWNTOSIZE |
| Circular paintings this writer wouldn't put up! | TONDI |
| Con a prince in disguise of a Polish astronomer | COPERNICAN |
| Connected with delivery in barn at Alnwick | NATAL |
| Dissolute, like one that's pulled by the unscrupulous? | FAST |
| English card crossing stream in light canvas shoe | ESPADRILLE |
| Europeans identified by a slowcoach reversing outside bar | ALBANIANS |
| Flimsy argument's blocked footballer's action | THROWIN |
| Foreign character following female banter gets the bird | CHIFFCHAFF |
| Greeting workforce he welcomes a thousand | HANDSHAKE |
| Have a thorough look, say, for flight location | STAIRWELL |
| Heroic pair regularly employed in the City | EPIC |
| Jewelled head-dress a French artist displayed outside quarters | CORONET |
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| Like some American businesses initially having edge | INCH |
| Nurse at centre of operations — one of Chekhov's three? | THEATRESISTER |
| Old German's fine hotel | FRITZ |
| Old Irish leader ejected from French resort in the past | ONCE |
| One who acts like Del Boy, say, with rhyme as well as reason? | WHEELERDEALER |
| Painter in hospital department first to get on board | ENTRAIN |
| Part of glacier civil engineer must visit one autumn | ICEFALL |
| Popular star worried about variable sources of work | INTRAYS |
| Social gathering to study poetry about a Jewish people | CONVERSAZIONE |
| Thinking ahead, arrange short match in outskirts of Poznan | PREPLAN |
| Tipsy parent going around with port | ANTWERP |
| Unimpaired quality of current diplomacy supported by head | INTACTNESS |
| Woman holding threaded fabric in tree-lined walk | ALAMEDA |
| Woman on stage winning acclaim on points? | BALLERINA |
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