Financial Times 18,352 by MONK

DIVER (duck) squeezes IN

Cryptic definition

A play on the dual meaning of ‘banger’, which could be a sausage or an old car

L (liberal) + (MUM’S UP)* (*for cooking)

‘Green’ usually refers to US money – their banknotes are all green

BUM (old tramp) in pursuit of PLUM (choice)

The Latin name for lead, from which is chemical symbol, Pb is derived

VIOLA[tions] (offences, half of)

ON (working) + TROT (left-winger) on THE (article)

‘Trot’ being an abbreviation for Trotskyist

(TUM ACHIER)* (*upset)

N (November); A LOG (a record) sucks

ROSE (sprung up) facing S (south)

GRANNIES* (*fighting) about [gi]N (last of)

T[rouble] (heading for) in VIRU[s] (bad program, mostly) with SO-SO< (indifferent, <backing)

GIT (unpleasant person) pinching L[arg]E (extremely)

“LACKER” (individual who wants, “outspoken”)

SORT* (*odd) entering RUM (odd)

D[rie]D (gutted); ANGLE (fish) lines

DAD (old man, cycling) in GLEN (narrow valley)

E (base, mathematical) in ([Hammon]D (bottom of) + LIVER (organ))

V (very) + A (active) + MOOSE (large deer)

(SMUG NASTY)* (*broadcast)

Nystagmus is an eye condition, i.e. complaint affecting a ‘viewer’

“RIMBAUD” (old French poet, “picked up”)

DIPS (idiots) + STICK(s) (rod, more than once – i.e. add plural S)

IN[j]URE (hurt, after J (Jack)’s lost)

(GEAR MOB)* (*distributed)

NAG (worry) about META (social media giant)

[tormen]T (end to) + REAS[s]URED (relieved, when one S (son) escapes)

ANAL (obsessive) + E.G.< (say, <over) + S[p]I[n]A[l] (bits of)

RED (bloody); VILE (shameful) cuts

S (second) + (RACE (run) inside A[fghanista]N (borders))

ILL (drained) + “BREAD” (local money, “for auditors”)

[h]ATE[r] (exposed) arrested by G-MAN (FBI agent)

[p]U[t]S [o]U[t] A (regularly) + L (large)

SPR[o]G (military recruit); getting I (one) for O (nothing)