Literary supporter? (9)

Icon: personal façade (5)

Black-headed small European songbird (4,3)

Jumps farther than (8)

Important river of South Wales (4)

Deserved; brought in (6)

Citizen of a former Soviet republic (6)

Give off; expel (4)

Quantity of precipitation for a given area in a given time (8)

Creatures of folklore (7)

Cheat or trick (5)

French wine merchant (9)

Traveller's guide book(s) since the mid-19th century (8)

Take or hold possession of (6)

Counterfeit; imposter (4)

Lavish display (12)

Best that is obtainable (3,2,3,4)

Personally take a defensive position in a trench or other redoubt (3,7,2)

Debasing; corrupting (12)

Ascot win? (anag) (8)

Biliousness; loathing (6)

Nub; real point of a legal action (4)