The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 30,174 - Dec 19 2022

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An easy goal? Check, if need be ATAPINCH
Bright red old bird FLAMINGO
Carpentry tool one wants badly TENONSAW
Clumsily done, in my long poem ENDYMION
Confront unpleasantness, as conductors do? FACETHEMUSIC
Cunning male dropping out of parade ARCH
Cynthia, terribly good sport YACHTING
Educational establishment with charm, grooms a poor student GRAMMARSCHOOL
Entirely lacking in depth, video nasty DEVOID
Had on about South being not as good WORSE
Helps to engage Irish artist to depict attacks from above AIRRAIDS
Left quickly, confused after desk rearranged SKEDADDLED
Level in competition? Almost EVEN
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Not working on stories, so rests LIESDOWN
Nothing in van, a Datsun NADA
Permit is required to get into Virginia VISA
Plane perhaps crossing a large Irish town TRALEE
Put aside novel about the Spanish leader in Valencia SHELVE
Region of Asia Minor, north of some Greek islands IONIAN
Ring English knight and odd cleric ENCIRCLE
Sad Conservative? BLUE
Tongue-lashing from one stuck in traffic TIRADE
Unemployed, fish round lake IDLE
Uniform in attire in force DURESS
What film-makers do as a form of protest? DIRECTACTION
Where noise disturbed US president EISENHOWER