The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 29,669 - May 7 2021

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A majority of capital raised in addition ALSO
Changed sides and caught foxtrot instead of tango DEFECTED
Check about mother's stay REMAIN
Cool quality of most aircraft wings? UNFLAPPABILITY
Cut a plant, they say it's tasty PICCALILLI
Doddering eccentric, pierced and tattooed (head only) DECREPIT
Drunk guy maybe, pedestrian performer who looks about to drop off? TIGHTROPEWALKER
Figure hoarding 1,000 diamonds gets stabbed PRICKED
Funds for the old writer, one being housed by offspring PENSIONS
Grass and booze covering food carrier BETRAYER
Had a tramp cooked up drug taken by old rocker? TRUDGED
Having forgotten odd bits of Byron, lip-reads, inverting order DEPLOY
Heart-throb's song and dance go wrong, getting upset ADONIS
Increased touring to Italy, a paradise UTOPIA
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Lectures this person's held in markets TIRADES
Lie about going to clubs perhaps in smart gear LOUNGESUIT
Look after husband's personal growth HAIR
Maybe steak-and-kidneys and veg, seconds coming at the end PUDS
Mum's curry -- poetry on occasion, one assumes! USURPER
Musical item is set in Washington DISC
Recognition of pupil a Tory arranged POPULARITY
Right to be utterly liberated? FREEDOMOFSPEECH
Royal house -- time for Charlie to show appreciation? PALATE
Shattering exercises to unwind STRAIGHTEN
Some deliveries friend sent back come together OVERLAP
Straightforward command DIRECT
Twisting in Bengali's net, unusual thing for eating UTENSIL
Unfortunately HR miscast comedians -- they're employed only once a year CHRISTMASCARDS