The Telegraph - CRYPTIC - December 11 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutons

Clues	Answers
A bit of bureaucracy -- an ideal cause of death?	CYANIDE
Add to company millions (sterling)	COMPOUND
Admire island lives protected by state benefit	IDOLISE
Backlash from soldiers with wind	RECOIL
Beat United -- last beaten during exercises	PULSATE
Consensus about endlessly diverse supplier of education	UNIVERSITY
Destiny sees detective back in the south of France	PROVIDENCE
Emotions generated by shorts?	SPIRITS
Fight against work model	OPPOSE
Huge deficit in fossil fuel	COLOSSAL
Insignificant items spread around shopping precinct	SMALLTIME
Iron brace fixed without carbon, like a hang-glider must be	AIRBORNE
Jack goes in low -- it's magic	MOJO
Laws covering alien figurines	STATUETTES
Most of monarchy exclude this means of leverage	CROWBAR
No pile of dosh, say dished out in the current times	NOWADAYS
Occasion when politicians try to make people cross?	ELECTION
Passes on drinking French wine and looks for water	DIVINES
Performing plays regularly exclusively	ONLY
Put on goose at last -- must be cooked!	DONE
Quantity of handouts distributed	THOUSAND
Rambling and leaving sons unprotected	GOINGON
Share of profit split with north Germany	DIVIDEND
Sleazy type finishing early was suitable	SORDID
Son will keep one set	LAID
Supported a general holding traitor back	RENEGADE
Swallow, as a joke is heard	INGEST
Take exception to question	CHALLENGE
With £1000, pay for seats here	GRANDSTAND
Worry about badger killing	CARNAGE