The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 29,796 - Oct 2 2021

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Amount paid to secure a cruise COAST
Beams following in empty rays RAFTERS
Boss eats horribly toxic substance ASBESTOS
Break down in tears initially: see, I'm upset ITEMISE
Bubbly guy gutted to admit halfwit GASSY
Collar estimated, by the sound of it RUFF
County suit under discussion HERTS
Decay -- as might stew? GOTOPOT
Do as I do facing queen: that's child's play! FOLLOWMYLEADER
Dodgy deal with assistant in Antipodean city ADELAIDE
Drink beginning to cheer up dad CUPPA
Egyptian monarch with posh skirt TUTU
Excellent thing, tea or coffee perhaps? HOTSTUFF
Faint, not very fit AGUE
Foreign words aimed at a Tuareg gal, gent translates TARGETLANGUAGE
Irritation in summit that's audible PIQUE
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Large and neat TIDY
Little movement arising in actual performance RECITAL
Part of church beginning to leak -- something contemplated? NAVEL
Previously referred to a figure heard and acknowledged AFOREMENTIONED
Second rotten reprimand TICKOFF
Sign there's tooth decay, first one pulled ARIES
Skill in fraud on its way STARTING
Stage before drive shows cricketing skill LEGSPIN
Stair hamsters perhaps will climb STEP
Stonier rocks coming soon INSTORE
Substance in meat to ripen bananas PROTEIN
Take a punt on a Greek character BETA
Tiniest bits of crumbs adorning squalid tool shed CAST
Underwear of poor quality PANTS
Unpleasant sensation, those things coming to a point? PINSANDNEEDLES
Witness jumpers being lifted SPOT