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Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 30 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Drink after drink — one attempting to lift another? (9)

Love collecting first of caterpillars in spring after climbing tree (8)

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Upper limit raised in money for holy office (6)

Teller of jokes — one of which in here? (7)

Country bumpkin (6)

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Father Christmas, I remembered stocking? (4)

Drink in plaudits, audience standing (4)

Only part of 6 (4)

Christmas favourite, almighty drunken fight? (4,4,7,2,4)

Crime award inspiring small informal gathering (4-4)

Crime, through having bagged Yuletide threesome up (6)

Newton, for one, claims the ground (9)

Floosie put paper up to decorate spruce (8)

Maverick adoring Zeus or Freyr? (4,3)

Heading off rats, bull (5)

See 2

In this, essentially head's torment (8)

Kick-start (4)

Ultimately ungulates best, Santa employing reindeer, say? (4)

Romantic joiner confined to cell, panicking over sex (9)

Runner in early event not starting back (5)

Unpredictable choice between 24 and 20 down? (3-2-4)

See 9

Scrawny neck, but no stuffing, put in place (5)

Stay flexible also in motion (8)

Drug, one fuelling a short run (7)

Scrooge's Boxing Day uplifting? That's not the right word (8)

Sticky and coarse (5)

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