The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 30,487 - Dec 19 2023

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Allegiance from kings maybe after change of direction? LOYALTY
Avoid deer, holding leads of dogs gingerly DODGE
Bubbly people in tents keeping hot CHAMPERS
Careful French composer reduced price DELIBERATE
Caretaker following Conservative peer CONTEMPORARY
Criminal Investigation Department filling most of legal document for judge DECIDE
Dress is lifted outside topless bar SARI
Fashionable chap opening no letters to begin with HAPPENING
Horse-like creatures from Oxford and Cambridge perhaps eating grain UNICORNS
Hostile Finn rudely waving UNFRIENDLY
I come about imprisoning convict being cost-effective ECONOMIC
I created a new Scotch ERADICATE
Intolerable sentimentality from European after claret's drunk TREACLE
John turned up grasping and savage VANDAL
One might sit on this cold rug CHAIR
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Only impel odd characters to leave bank MERELY
Perfect international business transaction IDEAL
Pinch jug NICK
Plonk is knocked back in warehouse DEPOSIT
Priest initially up for worship PRAISE
Record finished before Edward realised DISCOVERED
Recurrent idea from article supported by this writer THEME
Rubbish our dustmen cleared surmounted
Spoil fish at home with last bit of cheese spread MARGARINE
Swearing about American rat CUSSING
Truss upset about No 10 departure EXIT
Uniform relative put on good for church service EVENSONG
Voyager's tense tangle with the French Resistance TRAVELLER
Wearing thong, enthralling the Spanish with flash finally INTHELONGRUN
Work in shop usually OPUS