The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 29,227 - Dec 6 2019

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A modern miss collecting pounds for charity ALMS
As one outside home, very unlike welcome guest UNINVITED
Bird, old and cold, grasped by an animal doctor AVOCET
Call and sink into chair maybe after six VISIT
Community member, mostly horrible, wanting drink in pub? VILLAGER
Direction taken by sailor? One makes a bit of a meal of it! MAINCOURSE
Displaced people creating ado with Paris wrecked DIASPORA
English people of fashion in college ETON
Field with only half the Spanish football team REALM
Free from grime when brought into class DEGREASE
Gloomy church always getting smaller in number CHEERLESS
Go across step half missing on rickety ladder STRADDLE
Having a position in power, subsequently lambasted PLACED
I exist concealing endless desire, one appearing to be unreal ILLUSIVE
Maiden, one facing emotional pressure as 'the other woman'? MISTRESS
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New tiro, learner within day working with skill ADROITLY
Numbers crazy about fruit DAMSON
One opposed gets to induce scorn CONTEMPT
Piece of poetry from somewhere in Switzerland, unfinished? CANTO
Planet faced with onset of deadly shortage? DEARTH
Possibly a sugar, not something bitter ANGOSTURA
Scottish king seen as dull mug DUNCAN
Something sweet making aunt go crazy NOUGAT
Superior wise person demonstrates customary style of language USAGE
Things that can kill animal in retreat GATS
Think as timid type that's lost love MUSE
Thus male has no time for self-denial, being languid SOMNOLENT
Variation by mule -- this being awkward? MANOEUVRABILITY
Wild ape, grunter in exciting tale PAGETURNER