The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 588 - Jan 27 2020

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'Daily Chronicle', initially thinner CLEANER
Almost skin pike, in a manner of speaking PARLANCE
Eccentric out of sorts, exhausted OFFBEAT
End of material, excellent fabric LACE
Fails to secure investor in La-La land LOSANGELES
Flower people following automobile CARNATION
Go in after fish and chips CARPENTER
Having good manners, reportedly erudite bishop within WELLBRED
Keen on including Mahler's last piece of music INTRO
Lacking sufficient water in Kalahari Desert ARID
Male cat, black, in crypt TOMB
Meet in a bad mood CROSS
Only there's none on the other hand NOTHINGBUT
Onset of hail – pergola may provide shelter HARBOUR
Pin-up both rather embarrassed HEARTTHROB
Prize flower on top of table, extremely tactile ROSETTE
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Rule, then abdicate, failing to produce son REIGN
Said in favour of being romantically attached SPOKENFOR
Secret coteries formed ESOTERIC
Section of bar that's about right EXCERPT
Send a message in it, extraordinarily TEXT
Shout encouragement, leading one nil for so long CHEERIO
Skirt around centre of Edinburgh in a taxi MINICAB
Sound of hooter across island NOISE
Space agency overlooking length belonging to the nose NASAL
Stab leader leaving dive LUNGE
Sticky tapes securing small garden plant SWEETPEA
Table? Dine out before ten INDEX
Turn in wind TWIST
What Haig had? Nasty ordeal, first of many EARLDOM
Wheel clamp study part of speech also raised DENVERBOOT
Wicked getting fortune playing sport BADMINTON