The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 29,264 - Jan 20 2020

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Abruptly end holiday away BREAKOFF
Beautiful food, reportedly FAIR
Blackleg in second taxi SCAB
Consider intentional DELIBERATE
Constant companion of Irish playwright holding party SHADOW
Demanding firm HARD
Difficult: getting credit on top of loans is hard TICKLISH
Drug I swallowed after operation OPIATE
Easy to lose head in defeat LICK
Fool nicking small wrench TWIST
French revolutionary leader leading honourable race MARATHON
In hotel, immersed in a large volume ATHOME
Join squad, English UNITE
Large hole in case presented by barrister at the end CRATER
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Male not in to send out carriage TRANSIT
Man -- name sure confused hospital worker STAFFNURSE
Page checked by very severe correspondent PENPAL
Permit produced by tense wife leaving gate TICKET
Person, for example, associated with a wine shop BODEGA
Right do well after Surrey's opener dropped PROPER
River round York's centre in flood TORRENT
Road safety features in cases yet to be resolved CATSEYES
Sign of ladies losing weight OMEN
Smash slate SLAM
Sublime joke grasped by academic in charge MAJESTIC
Uncomplimentary reviewer, a student CRITICAL
What Open University offers article outlined -- cut ad out ADULTEDUCATION
What to do when no longer having an axe to grind? BURYTHEHATCHET