The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 29,448 - Aug 21 2020

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Amused; second was in first place TICKLED
Arguments involving a king's duties TARIFFS
Belief constant over consuming wine CREDO
Big cat in golf course reported LYNX
Birds half-destroyed purple plant LARKSPUR
Bit of goofiness essentially clever tricks FINESSES
Covered new trial described by top journalist ENCASED
Criminal material about Republican brought up in street LARCENIST
Dark sword changing hands SABLE
Entering affair, former lover's yielding FLEXING
Good leg exercise? Not beginner's messy stuff GUNGE
Happy, place got calmer PLEASED
Involved old Communist having change of heart LETIN
Keeping rook away, rip off bit of bread CROUTON
Lead in flue depressed sweep FLOW
Leaves are not imaginary, with tons to pick up EXITS
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Leg beast broke tackling alien insect STAGBEETLE
Men wittier when drunk -- that includes Noel WINTERTIME
Offering time, kid starts to unplug the earphones TRIBUTE
Old man greedy now and then AGED
Pawns or knights for corners? SETPIECES
Rabbit with talent contracted 20% of stomach GASTRIC
Retold novel about origin of pearl bead DROPLET
Revolutionary in charge with tough-looking tank CISTERN
Salt's ruined important meal with terrible consequences? LASTSUPPER
Scoff about son's bearing EAST
Sheep and rats emptied water containers EWERS
Significant lack of furniture? NOTABLE
Single international agency regularly examined art trends UNESCORTED
Small pressure against early locomotive wheel SPROCKET
Ten gathered in mist admire flower FOXGLOVE
Those people hiding potentially valuable mass proposition THEOREM