Claude ___, French painter (5) Cliff, actor who plays Fred Buckle in Call The Midwife (6) Coexisted, but not so as to be fired up (7) Cold ___, comedy-drama starring James Nesbitt (4) Cornish pasty veg (5) Country river almost overwhelmed by fish Couple dating (4) Courts of record formerly backed trustworthiness Currency Turkish chief’s introduced following backing at home Candidate I'm backing - nobody English will accept that Car without reliable brakes, for example (APT HATRED anagram) (9) Casual collared top Charity hasn't finished an account in yearly publication (7) Charlie has a day for practical jokes in Italian island (5) Checkroom problem (Hyph) Child's relatives hide Chubby lady's relative associated with Christmas (6) Church finally giving the go-ahead for blessing (9) Church rules soon broken by nipper? Quite the reverse (5,3) Cigarette after-burn remnant (3) Claim provided by small investor Clear, as a winter windshield (Hyph) Combined, they produce shades of gray (5,3,5) Compilers without success showing how Christmas may be (5) Computer's online connection Concerned with polling tree? Local's working (9) Concert takings Confused, cross about theologian's daughter Congressional tally Considered heady for worshippers to be in? Criticise work, largely empty, but a brilliant display Cry buckets - thick tissue! (7) ___ Clement, EastEnders actress; stamp (anag.) ____ Coleman, early U.S. civil aviator born in 1892 (6) Cause storm in teacup? Catalyst Condition Caches, hoards (7) Characteristic of Leicester ...? How to characterise some grins? (6) Clown to stagger back: source of clip-clop sounds? (8) Common fund in the hospitality sector where tips are paid for distribution to the staff (5) Continuous dry weather (7) Crack fissure Cryptic clue for wolf - or pheasant, perhaps (8) Cathedral section Cylindrical conduit Circle dances Conduct oneself Cry from a crib Cash drawer Convent resident Curt Charming, delightful Cereal grain Circle widths Campus mil. group Celebrity chef Burrell Ceremony host Command post Carving tools Call associated with Artificial Intelligence in COP28 location (5) Character in Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures In Wonderland (6) Cheer amazing star turns - primarily, the panto's players (4) Childhood home of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, in Angus, Scotland (6,6) Chooses to stop moving (4) City in Malaysia; the capital of Perak state (4) Construction material made of a mixture of cement, sand, stone and water (8) Credence or influence Caf? addition California airport, on luggage tags Cathedral city that lies on the River Wye (8) Celebrity who is the wife of ex-footballer Wayne, _ Rooney (6) Chide for naughtiness Christmas carol of unknown authorship, O _, All Ye Faithful (4) Christmas stocking end Claus or Kringle, e.g. Comic Jack in British government? (9) Company advisory group Compound which is a constituent base of DNA (8) Cond? __ Traveler Consumer show first broadcast in 1980 (8) "Cool" winter figure with wings Country of Gisele Bundchen's birth (6) Crispy part of a pan of brownies Crossword-book publisher Custom-made "blanket" provided by a winter resort Caroline who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music Church benches Close by Ctrl-___-Del Coffee order that averts jitters "Como ___?" Compound in weed Came up Central Criminal Court of England and Wales (3,3,6) Class of serf in the feudal system (7) Comedian from Bathgate who's written the memoir 'Strong Female Character' (4,5) Commander of the Greeks during the Trojan War (9) Compelling observance of law, etc. (9) Cary ___, Hollywood star (5) "Catch you later!" Chicken nuggets, fries and drink holder Country that rearranged spells "rain" Creature with a long tail Canadian surname Carrey is amorous with gals Chemical element with the symbol B City map, Clare Booth ___, American writer Contract need: Abbr Convicted American spy Casual bit of bicep-baring wear Chandler ___ (Friends friend) Citation style used in comp lit Classic Christmas carol ... made literal in 10 of this puzzle's down entries Classic name for a lab assistant Cozy layovers on a journey 1954 collection of essays by John O'Hara Can capture targeted victims initially (4) Cannes film award, Palme ... (1'2) Caribbean country, ... Lucia Casks Perry found in the highrise (10) Cause to be short of breath Cinema admission slip Club membership fees, eg Coin ___ (decision-making option) Comic strip "___ Gordon" Common phrase or expression Contend with new creeper Celebrity chef (5,3) Cleaning bar Commitment to promotion in this place not even niche (9) Complain out loud when cut (4) Colorful symbols of awareness. (7) Colour of pure snow Common fund in the hospitality sector where tips are paid for distribution to the staff. (5) Composed, schemed (7) Constructed from 1348 to 1430, Vicars' Close in which English city is the oldest intact residential street in Europe? (5) Contemplates, ... on Cry at Sherpa forming a posse ... (6,5) Crybabies swim badly around quietly (5) Choose, by voting Choreography units City that "wasn't built in a day" Counterpart of "cons" Chapel bench Chest bone Catch, as a criminal Cabin ___ (airplane staff) Conks on the head, say College in New Rochelle, New York Cry of surprise Cartoonish shriek Camera output, for short Christian ___ (French fashion mogul) Circle's segment "___ Christmas!" Crown of the head (4) Creature that lives upon another (8) Caviar, e.g. Chicago trains Completely insignificant person Cloth strips on military uniforms Critic's piece City north of Des Moines Cat’s cry Cupid’s alias Carton sealer Canonized Fr. women Created Contestant finishing second Country Charming around branch Child of resonance College of note, possibly Cape —, promontory at the NW extremity of mainland Scotland Communication tool Crowd controller? Campaigner, for short Curry ingredient Count of music Coral island Contending Chapel seat Classical language Craft Caterpillar or tadpole, eg Caught in excessively noisy environment, become dull Churchy NW town originally advertised in sprawling italics Clumsy person, terribly old, boarding helicopter Complex man’s big wordbook I dine over Claim Yorkshire town has no hotel Continue to chatter in the country Criticise star with a ''wonder cure'' --- Culkin, Home Alone star Cake ingredient (4) Caroline ---, comic actress who co-wrote and appeared in The Royle Family Cavities; predicaments Celestial body associated with the goddess Selene Charge cut by smallholder, initially, for bundle of straw? (5) Chinese meditative exercise system (3,3) Christian apostle (4) Christmas Eve by Rimsky-Korsakov, e.g. Christmas cooking essential (4) Citrus zest in its natural state or candied for Christmas cake, pudding, stollen etc; or, banana/potato skin (4) City of eastern Germany Classical name of the Greek island of Santorini Comedic partner to Eric (3) Commotion also around Germany (2,2) Communications from pair propping up the bar? Concerns a score given when it's broadcast again Constant thundering and in Lancaster maybe small downpour Container of buzzers (4) Contemptuous ridicule or mockery (8) Corfe Castle, e.g. (5) Corinne Bailey ___, Put Your Records On singer (3) Corrupt international politician certain to avoid last of investigators (6) Cover for an observer? (6) Cram or Ovett, say (5) Creature whose species include the world’s largest bivalve molluscs Criticise star with a 'wonder cure' Cut of 13 Across (4,5) Call friend in America up (3) Canine calculations Car hirer Carefully confront a confused liar in outer Wembley Cave in Split? Slip up climbing inside it Certain appliances City's roads Clubs behind noble treated as a group (2,4) Clumsy with a beer in moving forwards Comic "Red" of vaudeville, radio, TV, and film Complain about a satisfied person's form of identification (4-3) Corporate complaint? (9) Cuckoo let inside not even suffering after flight ___ Channel ___ Cup, Europe vs USA golf contest (5) ____ Christensen, Danish model and photographer born in 1968 (6) Calmness Coastal inlet Choose Cloistered women Cart pullers Cry Claim on the money Colourful bird initially making a harsh cry Come before Component Casually socializing Competed pitted