The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,999 - Apr 14 2019

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A card she played in party game CHARADES
African country like that leads SOMALI
African plant for afternoon meal PROTEA
After embroidery, I undress various things SUNDRIES
Biblical king, that man getting stick HEROD
Bird family inferior to relative SISKIN
Blue whale's tail seen somewhere off Scotland's west coast SKYE
Box completing bingo line -- is one chirpy? HOUSESPARROW
Carrier in the morning brings tea ASSAM
Club -- one going down around start of recession DRIVER
Commonplace affair, rotten deed MATTEROFFACT
Country folk behind you YEMEN
Court and office acting badly WOODEN
Dance anything but a dream, did you say? REEL
Demonstratively cheery rugby players drinking BACKSLAPPING
Dirty cap removed from oil RUDE
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Engine with a screw loose? LOCO
Footwear in moccasins and a loafer SANDAL
Greek articles around Northern Ireland ATHENIAN
Illustrate manufacture of rice beds DESCRIBE
Ludicrous plan mattered in section of business DEPARTMENTAL
Medicine administered, drop fed to beastly female DOSAGE
Odd pieces in pile, old coppers? PLOD
Part-timer behind original design TEMPLATE
Perfect cherry drink for dog AIREDALE
Potential weapon provided in joint, sawn off KNIFE
Run away in defeat ROUT
Shop that was run by me, turned over DELI
Subdued complaint as alcoholic double upended MURMUR
Support worker shot, sportingly? BACKHAND
Travel towards nanny, for example GOAT
Writing piece, time passed SENTENCE