The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,080 - Dec 29 2016

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A case of what should properly be used to cover a floor CARPETBAG
A drug-taking bicyclist is transforming ease of comprehension ACCESSIBILITY
Allowance: Southend, given space, takes hint STIPEND
British sort of insult: 'Camp outfit!' BUTLINS
Charing Cross? Exasper­ation! CHAGRIN
Cordial poured over hot body support CHASSIS
Decorating audacious men libels them EMBELLISHMENT
Ease up as a master sommelier? That's rude TASTELESS
English politics constituted of letters EPISTOLIC
Evacuation: one leaves before last of Tory Opposition ENEMY
Field of European football team not banner-free? REALM
Find oneself getting round Aintree (beaten, outside time) ORIENTATE
Greek pain container of legend GRAIL
Gruesomely large openings on total wreck of part of larynx GLOTTAL
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Indian songbird — medicine man removes tail SHAMA
Not first winter transfer taken by Price, the player CORNETIST
Not one initial interaction with USA, which went down controversially LUSITANIA
Plant used science to change carbon to oxygen SENECIO
Radius covered by diagonal shaped candleholder GIRANDOLA
Rag label cover protecting ring TABLOID
Ray: gather name's changed to Miles GLEAM
Reflective lines of energy on stage yard ELEGY
Star lives over a narrow cavity SINUS
Stockhausen wasn't a heavyweight — a Lambert! TONAL
Tip over mock seaweed CARRAGEEN
Trailing insulation LAGGING
TS Eliot's timeless 'Gnostic, quixotic sect member' SCIENTOLOGIST
Whose patients are laid back? Yes and no PSYCHOANALYST