December 25 2018 The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 100,010

The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 100,010 - Dec 25 2018

Clues	Answers
At one's office, bought gold bar?	INGOT
Capture bear	TAKE
Cause of expert calling	PROVOCATION
Complaint made by each girl left out	EARACHE
Deficit in accounts solicitor raised	LOSS
Exact copy in parcel I unwrapped	REPLICA
Give a reason for former partner lacking beauty	EXPLAIN
Goes round introducing religious books to classes	ROTATES
I say nothing	EGO
In attendance, holding papers for chief executive	PRESIDENT
Irritable about doctor cutting in giving evidence	TESTIMONY
Love quiet American work	OPUS
Luminary on a spree, stupidly consuming gallons	PERSONAGE
Move in explosive missile	TRIDENT
Naval officer fine abridged book omitted	ADMIRAL
One giving treatment to the OAPs affected	OSTEOPATH

Clues	Answers
Privy to special information? No, we think otherwise	INTHEKNOW
Record tango, then copy	TAPE
Ring a theatre company about 'Carmen', for example	OPERA
Royal Highness, old Greek character	RHO
See chess piece, rook, taken by one -- first of castles	BISHOPRIC
Small unfeeling quarrelsome woman of old?	SCOLD
Smart carrying it, to avoid becoming an easy target	SITTINGDUCK
Sobriquet of English ambassador entertained by former PM	EPITHET
Sound choice, it's said	PLUMB
Spicy sausage: condiment on top of it	PEPPERONI
Tackle crack soldiers in heart of ghetto	EQUIPMENT
Tired clothes ending in laundry	WEARY
Traveller having brandy before start of online game	MARCOPOLO
Unforeseen difficulty of Italian female wearing shroud	PITFALL
Wind, and so on, battered a national park	SNOWDONIA
Worried about vessel	UBOAT