The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 30,279 - Apr 20 2023

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Clues Answers
Adult male turned up on peg -- Long John Silver? AMPUTEE
An unpleasant noise surrounding boy in fairy tale ALADDIN
Bar close to ground reserved SAVED
Champion in great escape TOPFLIGHT
Citrus plant, large, moved one metre LEMONTREE
Clever person after time becomes idiot BIRDBRAIN
Did spring article in Paris? Fitting! LEAPT
Enter undetected and transgress, bagging duck STEALIN
Extremely pretty country brings burning desire PYROMANIA
Fool across the pond first to decry little book DWEEB
Hired killer from Daisen, in Japan NINJA
Hotel on Hebridean island raised capital HANOI
It faces backwards in an old church in ancient city ANTIOCH
Liberator freeing fifty as from thick treacle MOSES
Message online and call from branch? TWEET
Muscular -- like some bully? BEEFY
Clues Answers
Nightmare with stomach after 10? BUGBEAR
Nom de plume that could be Dumpynose? PSEUDONYM
Non-U Tory following in car unlikely to be caught? INAUDIBLE
North-eastern China's mountainous region NEPAL
Offenders at first lie badly, tiddly in court OLDBAILEY
One crashes into store -- to steal butter? RAMRAIDER
One's achievement in not missing a trick? GRANDSLAM
Our beds damaged unopened flower ROSEBUD
Outcast one left in Devon river EXILE
Poor deal with a sect increased in scale ESCALATED
Ridiculously good parts in snail for instance GASTROPOD
Savoury dish, lightly cooked, needs while RAREBIT
Sound shortened in shout to encourage knight CHEVALIER
Sport in Six Nations finally showing destructive influence VIRUS
Tropical fish in Trent area, oddly TETRA
Underworld delivered break with church DISSENT