The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 30,162 - Dec 5 2022

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Bill Sikes's dog's sweet BULLSEYE
Bully husband, clergyman heading off HECTOR
Case is located in valley VALISE
Common sense of former PM facing question GREYMATTER
Conflict with the German prison officer WARDER
Desert bug DEFECT
Divisible by two, therefore all the same? EVENSO
Down-and-out given something for breakfast perhaps in pub BEGGAR
Gift -- no charge -- be my guest FEELFREE
Girl I courted, originally in Italian city VERONICA
Greek character describing labyrinthine Crete, and the like ETCETERA
I recalled novel about knight in rags-to-riches story CINDERELLA
Large animal confused the panel ELEPHANT
Lose minutes approaching Hebridean island MISLAY
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Name lake in Oregon, sadly not now as it was in the past NOLONGER
One landed in Scotland from Bel Air, delayed LAIRD
One used to lift one's spirits? EXORCIST
Ouse winding across English county, lastly, is so long SEEYOU
Pulled out the French newspaper LEFT
Quarrel involving silver upper-class car JAGUAR
Short interrogation, then hang traitor QUISLING
Small beer following fish, or gammon CODSWALLOP
Snail races curiously received ESCARGOT
Tense time to come FUTURE
Transvestite's undergarment? VEST
Tree died after onset of blight -- wood rot BALDERDASH
Tutor playing around with opera TURANDOT
Understood he'd one line in play from start to finish GOTHEDISTANCE