The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 3,182 - Oct 16 2022

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A stepladder designed to get me on board boat PADDLESTEAMER
An unreal plaything with no strings attached? AIRGUITAR
Appropriate cook POACH
Athletes winning in second team? RUNNERSUP
Disembowelled -- like a chicken? GUTLESS
Do -- or do without hot food? CUTTHEMUSTARD
Evident getting behind, win at cards OVERTRUMP
Ex-Wimbledon champ on team EVERTON
Exaggerate, performing mad satire DRAMATISE
Film enemy stealing wild goat FOOTAGE
Flipped over say, darkish bug MIDGE
Four points indicated by needle, stitched together SEWN
Gathering in? HOUSEPARTY
Leap over underground chamber VAULT
Macho man leaving academic research unfinished STUD
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Mischievous child, one using cane on swimmer? WHIPPERSNAPPER
Not entirely uplifting process, it amuses artist MATISSE
Opening part, representative MOUTHPIECE
Place it inside sausage's skin SITE
Political campaign in March, terribly nasty CHARMOFFENSIVE
Range observed in clinical psychology ALPS
Reason for dregs in coffee pot? GROUNDS
Roman goddess requiring month off, originally JUNO
Secure wreck SCREWUP
Square in La Paz rebuilt PLAZA
Tea service available, initially wheeled round ASSAM
Tin not closed, colour wasted TIRED
Unremarkable Renault taken for a spin NEUTRAL
Wet dress and muddy pants, first of all DAMP
Word in poem is surprisingly about right PROMISE