The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,971 - Sep 30 2018

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A container that's not closed AJAR
Account in personal record that's distracting DIVERSIONARY
Allow to go ahead or punitively try to stop SANCTION
As herald of spring, wintry weather event? SNOWDROP
Biddable? Constrained by old inclination, pass OBEDIENT
Blocking or playing for time -- nothing novel in that STONEWALLING
Break balance REST
Daily fare from Tallahassee, Florida fell, finally MEAL
Do some needlework over time, note CROTCHET
Evaluate a second opinion ASSAY
Exhibits, for example, as central idea in show EVIDENCE
Financial problem for people in land to beat somehow NATIONALDEBT
Flock mistakenly got grain once CONGREGATION
Food for Mexicans I will put in wrong area TORTILLA
For each boy a large kind of computer PERSONAL
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Heavenly drink producing trance when drunk NECTAR
Intervene to contain cold, administer dose MEDICATE
Irritating person ending with love -- that's saucy PESTO
Landed, advanced, and fired ALIT
More than anything else, duck meat in lab going bad ABOVEALL
My off-putting statement for someone not in good faith? IDOLATER
Mystery in game, possibly, e.g. man I exchanged ENIGMA
Party opposing one call for peace is not this DOVISH
Piece in game removed from board, ominously DOMINO
Preparing last piece of poetry in literary event READYING
Short measure for Juliet's follower KILO
Standard choice between central characters for us NORM
Vehicle's fuel used up covering motorway LIMO
What's at centre of nasty eye? STYE
Yellow arch spanning part of hospital on left COWARDLY