The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,953 - Dec 29 2022

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Clues Answers
'ouse introducing marginally better card game OMBRE
Athlete once trying to smuggle chocolate bars? MARATHONRUNNER
Best knitted top, one buttoned up OPTIMUM
Black horses, first of three having escaped SABLE
Don overturned tennis umpire's call NOTUP
Dropping old stick, heel on loafer's broken it EXCREMENT
Fraudulent schemes in a game RACKETS
In the morning, harassment of editors gradually paid off AMORTISED
Landowner seen, hide daughter LAIRD
Letter opener that is removed from armoire, admired as quirky DEARSIRORMADAM
Massive feat of engineering seen by a bird soaring over Barking from the south ASWANHIGHDAM
Microphone initially grasped by idle singer? DOMINGO
Owner of sword I plant while not going down SAMURAI
Paul in debt, probably asking for a stroke? MEOWING
Clues Answers
Rank skirt, but not top ORDER
Recollection of horse eating pork — is that witty? EPIGRAM
Scary girl or stinker almost flipped, of course NOPROBLEM
Scholar delivering sermon, endless gossip RABBI
Second course that was designed for the better TICKTACK
See 25 THEORIENT
See 25 EXPRESS
See red garment worn by orphan, one abandoned BLOWAFUSE
Some fumes enter all old parts of the gut MESENTERA
Spiel, dark stuff PITCH
Trump in love underneath post-graduate MASTEROFARTS
Typically English establishment, Australian native inside? TEAROOM
Where everyone was rightly under suspicion, hellish working for a Chinese newspaper? (6,2,3,6,7) MURDERON
With climbers furious, short of peak, expedition leader dug in IVIED