The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 29,490 - Oct 9 2020

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Advance with a bouquet ASCENT
Cardinal rule for a speaker PRINCIPAL
Cuddling grandma, that is silly INANE
Deceased not half needed for undertaking DEED
Dodgy alibi, with connections offering gifts ABILITIES
Exaggerate accent STRESS
Females comprising more than one resident in 5? PRINCESSES
Get in metal to embody a charm ENTERTAIN
Get lit weirdly -- phone makes one shiny GLITTERING
Golf precedes this person's award GIVE
Intellectual copyright undermines a rogue record company ACADEMIC
Nice perhaps and kind about taking the lead RESORT
Now and then, Seuss writes with energy and tension SUSPENSE
One blessed Green sucker STRAW
One creates liquid vintner's keeping over INVENTOR
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One's often high during a performance but down after the show CURTAIN
Paints, say, old-fashioned parent, one too short MATERIALS
Part seen occasionally in 'stinker', mag pens in review SEGMENT
Plants displayed round a monarch's houses PALACES
Possessions stored up in chalet at seaside ESTATE
Queen intercepts motorists going over field AREA
Sample from brochures -- is tan cedarwood used for protection? RESISTANCE
Schoolboy traps the compiler set! LAID
Send best wishes to Aunt Carol and get drunk CONGRATULATE
Short, a film maybe DRAMA
Some creep munching gum leaves CATERPILLARS
They smell new -- flowers pruned at the top NOSES
This kind of clue, by the sound of it, looks on a lower level DOWNSTAIRS
Was dwelling given new walls? RESIDED
Wild Arctic tours I left, showing disapproval CRITICAL