The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,869 - Oct 13 2018

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A giant in excited eagerness AGOG
Always a metallist suffered ATALLTIMES
Asking for gent, squire's all over the place REQUESTING
Bringing up to scratch, perhaps that's annoying IRRITATING
Crazy, but often seen with motive? LOCO
Cut tax EXCISE
Devil getting on with mostly agreeable Kelvin OLDNICK
Direct empty cartridge close to target POINTBLANK
Disguise chef finally having mixed guacamole outside CAMOUFLAGE
Excessively bright rig has collapsed GARISH
First step, introduce about four INITIATIVE
Get stick for going up and down? POGO
Grouse making grand deep sound? GRUMBLE
Half-dozen with nasty allusion that is wicked VILLAINOUS
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In France, I love crossing wealthy city JERICHO
Look always beyond lake LEER
Messenger is beaten going round metropolis LOSANGELES
Might England's openers consolidate? STRENGTHEN
Officer has American drink COLA
Officer's phoney tip-off -- car about to be seized TRAFFICCOP
Penny weighing very little? That's a predicament PLIGHT
Power of wife lying in state SWAY
Present from the residents HERE
Steep slope recent maps disguised ESCARPMENT
Take no notice of Italian gentleman failing to start IGNORE
Trap positions American inside pretentious public houses GINPALACES
Travel carrying little weight in island GOZO
Wretched group circling Long Island SQUALID