The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 29,259 - Jan 14 2020

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Aim low MEAN
Almost certain to offer to concede SURRENDER
American writer in South Dakota editor excluded SUSPENDED
Around a river, sailor paddles OARS
Choose detectives to probe curtailed action DECIDE
Close race overshadows who came last? LOSER
Cuckoo smeared this with small beak? HEADMISTRESS
Doctor said see Head of Special Illnesses DISEASES
Drink left for bird TEAL
Drug-dealers caught with millions in armed robberies CHEMISTS
Excellent? No -- sad to leave university NOBLE
Fertile places -- rat arrives GRASSLANDS
Foreign banker tests businesses INDUSTRIES
Give account of some French writer DESCRIBE
Handsome judge -- and clever CONSIDERABLE
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Is finally confused what the horse was? SADDLED
Last Queen sent up chief REMAIN
Level-headed criminal concealing weapon BALANCED
Paces around this, wiping his face ASPECT
Particular value RESPECT
Progressive artist rejected LSD and left RADICAL
Region in Far East AREA
Shocks gentleman with awards, we hear SURPRISES
Socialist party upset stranger ODDER
Son, unfriendly with Edward, gets told off SCOLDED
Tea follows instant coffee MOCHA
Train, please, on two-thirds of RAF jets? AEROPLANES
United Nations starts to abandon boycott, leaving everyone powerless UNABLE
Was champion jockey seduced outside church? SUCCEEDED
Where pupils learn about morals -- so unusual before start of school CLASSROOMS