The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 30,403 - Sep 12 2023

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A trusty vine I scrambled up ATUNIVERSITY
Allowed goal, securing championship ENTITLED
Boats -- some cross less evasively on the way back VESSELS
Brave before prison sentence makes you quail? GAMEBIRD
Bumps into this writer and gets head scratched MEETS
Caught Oscar twice with a drink COCOA
Command soldiers wearing magenta pants MANAGEMENT
Complain an election's somewhat foolish INANE
Difficulty for leaders of BBC Lineker epitomised, maybe PROBLEM
Eat in the open air breeze PICNIC
Editor upset with blunt argument DEBATE
English knight opposing battle ENCOUNTER
Finishes repairs with month to go ENDS
Friendly with a Republican male WARM
Having a talk about Alice's mad acquaintance in golf CHATTERING
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Hollow feeling IMPRESSION
Live in old vessel in outskirts of city OCCUPY
Makes fun of topless relatives AUNTS
Might get thorns out with nothing missing STRENGTH
Mock student leaving bar IMITATION
Moral weakness reduced Conservatives' wins VICTORIES
Polish chap's rubbish job? DUSTMAN
Running record brought up in speech OPERATION
Shake second barrel STUN
Show excited guests around centre of Bangkok SUGGEST
Small lingerie covering right bits SUNDRIES
Struggling in maths set? No wonder! ASTONISHMENT
Type of music only on the radio SOUL
What Napoleon showed the French before he'd Paris reconstructed LEADERSHIP
Witness most portly female getting abandoned ATTEST