The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,899 - Aug 14 2019

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Clues Answers
A little more drink for toasting new pet? TOPUP
Are they sent for if popes, say, act so strangely? MENINWHITECOATS
Batting, force one senior man away from boundary INFIELDER
Bethlehem visitors find retri­bution, returning with one change of direction WISEMEN
Brave but missing first chance LUCKY
Deprived of sense, incorrectly bound to accept Liberal BLINDED
Devotees, cricket match being over, not now on square IDOLATERS
Having no hope of fixing 24 DESPAIR
Hear one welcoming woman GRETA
Hypocritical speaker to cover least bad book CANTERBURYTALES
Imitation marble is logical as could be SCAGLIOLA
Nervous in court, cramped UPTIGHT
Oily charm from judge leaving meeting UNCTION
One supporting and backing American composer SUSTAINER
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Part of Africa has bounced back well, if intermittently SAHEL
Pronounced sorrow with board game where finance dictates policy DOLLARDIPLOMACY
Put into shape, because tangled FORMATTED
Roman city's northern half taken over NIMES
Russian bishop's prayer not working BORIS
Showed approval of 23 being freed PRAISED
Sort of personality: international Mars explorer has tons INTROVERT
Succinct treatise from small religious community SUMMA
Through this shortly I'll snort horribly NOSTRIL
Turns to catch the sound of sudden change of air WINDSHEAR
Unexpectedly arrived during tea, drunk on this? TABLEWINE
Unmoved as grass has stained coat DRYEYED
US city with no motorway? I am surprised OMAHA
X, mark probing new evidence of collision — get the law! TENCOMMANDMENTS