The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 30,436 - Oct 20 2023

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'Ratty -- Favourite Little Creature' university student's penned PETULANT
... bid to ban candidate? NOTRUMP
A river bordered by bird burrows WARREN
Bouquet for tech owner who added 'X' on ... MUSK
City where treasure may be stored by bishop, say, and Queen MANCHESTER
Clock set to go backwards DIAL
Denounced cryptic e.g. with dim pun IMPUGNED
Eleventh-hour stay, little to the south LASTMINUTE
Engineer leaves the Spanish geographer's base SEALEVEL
Families may be putting in this reduced model of course MINIATUREGOLF
Feline -- Matisse fancifully captures one that's played up SIAMESECAT
Field that takes an age to turn over ARENA
Food devoured by hippopotamus tastes revolting SATSUMA
Goal-fest at Everton ... could be this home ground! HOUSINGESTATE
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Growth of passion -- 'Mail me back' getting oddly ignored MIMOSA
He'd blog regularly -- pretty good work on screen EBOOK
Imprisons writers PENS
Local alcohol delivered for member of the club INSIDER
Lower chamber standing behind represented false humility SELFABASEMENT
Number whose abbreviation would be its square root in Rome MILLION
Oxygen contributes to exercising easing stress AGONISE
Pass on portion of sweet, a gel Edward flipped over DELEGATE
Self-built small ground-level home, not flat ANTHILL
Team from 1 Across land here? UNITEDKINGDOM
They rush over after wall's destroyed WATERFALLS
This could be canned music -- no energy, but it has a following TUNA
Universe having no origin is absorbing OSMOSIS
What might lead to whispers from Wuhan? CHINESE