The Telegraph - CRYPTIC - Dec 24 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 29,867 - Dec 24 2021 Crossword Solution

Clues	Answers
A little optional something in addition	ALSO
Article of furniture, one found backstage in theatre	DRESSER
Boasted in company	CREW
Club perhaps provided source of financial capital	CARDIFF
Confess on purpose action proving personally disadvantageous	OWNGOAL
Country, near ruin at intervals, that's on the rise	IRAN
Cricket teams in prime fitness at last	ELEVENS
Customers of SPAR not fickle	PATRONS
Detected by auditors, hiding-place for money	CASH
Detective emerging from helicopter with our suspect	HERCULEPOIROT
Dish, excessive starter of olives, gentleman served up	RISOTTO
Energy needed by snooker player possibly in decline	GOTOPOT
Exhibition of setter's skills displayed here?	DOGSHOW
Fifty tucking into hot Christmas food	STOLLEN
Graduates seen cavorting outside, all together	ENMASSE
Herb swallowed finally with difficulty	DILL
High time Rosalind essentially left	TALL
Mum loves employing rag mop regularly as cleaner	SHAMPOO
Not entirely neglect fashion	FORGE
One granting wishes of a German, say, to go north	GENIE
Quarrel that's quick blows over	SPAT
Reportedly Berlin chap's address has identity code that secures locks	HAIRPIN
Single redundant worker being released	UNWED
Sound almost excited feeding small, sad-looking tree	WEEPINGWILLOW
Spirit voice	TENOR
Standard conversation in market with traders	STOCKEXCHANGE
State running Austrian school, having sacked Head	SOUTHCAROLINA
Student requiring support to install shower	TRAINEE
Trial engulfs European politician in storm	TEMPEST
TV show that gets one into a lather?	SOAP
Young son scatters rubbish untidily about	LITTERS
Zealot is in fact a criminal	FANATIC