The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,968 - Sep 9 2018

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As substitute, make score of ten? DOUBLE
Avoid what's hot and cold initially CHEAT
Awfully tedious Republican who's unlikely to win? OUTSIDER
Capital's first letter followed by second ATHENS
Child raised on hotel food NOSH
Conclusions in hard case came from judge DEEM
Constant temperature for competition EVENT
Contributor of vital liquid assets deposited in bank BLOODDONOR
Don't eat convenient kind of food FAST
Get old and revised list of items AGENDA
Guidance daughter needed, trapped in a bad habit ADVICE
Having got to the end of most of the difficult part of course THROUGH
I comply with rearrangement of international events OLYMPIC
In this way, husband is capturing rook or another bird THRUSH
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Maiden I, perhaps wrongly, concluded is not well understood MISAPPREHENDED
Major post in advertising business MAILSHOT
Metaphor is making, in part, for pithy pronouncement APHORISM
Observed action of opponents in court, say, with appeal SPECTATORSPORT
Old book favouring words like 'doth' and 'hath' PROVERBS
Partly switching sides -- pathetic PALTRY
Provide with pictures from artist in US, little altered ILLUSTRATE
Section of final song, and original source, too ALSO
Small animal and minute bird holding on MONGOOSE
Soft term of endearment is insincere PHONEY
Stepping finally on ladder, or part of one RUNG
Summary covering struggle with weight OVERVIEW
Support alternative to flights going in one direction UPLIFT
Writer understood about his heroine's character deficit? SHAW