The Guardian - Quick crossword No 15,257 - Apr 2 2019

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Clues Answers
Adage PROVERB
Additional EXTRA
Canonised person SAINT
Champagne (informal) BUBBLY
Clean-and-jerk sport WEIGHTLIFTING
Early stringed instrument VIOL
Exemption from punishment IMPUNITY
Fasten — engross RIVET
Financial security — teeters, say (anag) EASYSTREET
First — beginning OPENING
Gob SPIT
Clues Answers
Kind of long-grained rice BASMATI
Large church building BASILICA
Lunar occurrence (which almost never happens) BLUEMOON
Open jar for holding flowers VASE
Palpitate THROB
Projectile (sometimes guided) MISSILE
Ridiculous combination of two figures of speech MIXEDMETAPHOR
Roman poet, d. about AD17 OVID
Scornfully mocking SARDONIC
Unquenchable INSATIABLE
Yes-man STOOGE