The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 29,495 - Oct 15 2020

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... natter with eminent lunatic provides amusement ENTERTAINMENT
Abuse me sternly employing academic term SEMESTER
Bar overturned before charge at the back DORSALLY
Bird is damaged lying on a road BUSTARD
Broke surface on top of tapioca SKINT
Dress on street giving flash regularly STROBE
Ecstatic feeling from, perhaps, Odyssey RHAPSODY
Fight excess swallowing small single RESIST
Foreign capital excursion on oil rig, occasionally TRIPOLI
Hard old lady with Italian sweetheart GRANITE
Hires out a buggy getting permit AUTHORISE
Idiots accepting leader of Tories' qualities ASSETS
If not overcast, taking top off UNLESS
In agreement negotiating is done ONSIDE
Inflexible end delivered STUBBORN
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Inhibition of one in holiday rave RESTRAINT
Journalist is on drink REPORTER
Outhouses housing right bits SHREDS
Positions sculptor's head cutting into sculptures STATUSES
Rubbish celebrity practically pocketing shedloads FLOTSAM
Sort of immunity is caught, reportedly HERD
Splutter over getting clues TIPS
Spot, we hear, to find fish PLAICE
Stands? Hard in wellies, perhaps! BOOTHS
Strains to produce puzzles RIDDLES
Streak in street with breeze rising STRIA
Tweeted about husband becoming excited THRILLED
Undoing blouse embracing masculine clot EMBOLUS
Vague tirade with eminent lunatic ... INDETERMINATE
Work period cut one's minute hope OPTIMISM