The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 30,473 - Dec 2 2023

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... this was used to prevent it! CHASTITYBELT
Bond I'd play regularly in unusual fashion ODDLY
Choose to study organ: be encouraged TAKEHEART
Coat's second layer worn by 'umble character SHEEPSKIN
Conductor's constipation appalling -- pot not needed TOSCANINI
Cool to check out music genre INDIE
Crisis where District Attorney takes stuff in ... DRAMA
Displeased with department's representative sample CROSSSECTION
Invalid filled in forms when touring university NULLIFIED
Irony perfect somehow in Pericles PRINCEOFTYRE
Learner driver in vehicle with a woman CLARA
Loyal vassal in Belgian city LIEGE
Magistrate of past and of future events REEVE
Marine mammal and mammoth, perhaps close up ELEPHANTSEAL
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Mum, not married, sensible apart from that OTHERWISE
Old lizard Mauro's content after pint with love PTEROSAUR
River's river with carp, not wide RHINE
Sir Toby's noisy expulsion after dinner? BELCH
Sit and cry -- he's suffering these? HYSTERICS
Smitten peri had to love goddess APHRODITE
Song of no great length about husband's cat SHORTHAIR
Sort of western pie that's cooked, good to be consumed SPAGHETTI
Sound of my army band? CORPS
Spooner's dog -- pointer -- makes farewell TOODLEPIP
Still at the crease: no boundaries in Perth INERT
Stops one throw being returned in cricket series ABOLISHES
Walk to embrace cold spell PATCH
Your compiler's Conservative, not Liberal, making charge IMBUE