The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 27,420 - Feb 22 2014

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A call for help about finest incombustible material ASBESTOS
Band take off, covering Queen GROUP
Bedmaker in nursery? GARDENER
Biscuit, Western fare cooked WAFER
Champion rugby player's single set of books PROPONENT
Faithful promises to repay, pence first PIOUS
Fill with Courage, popular drink INSPIRIT
Get real land COMEDOWNTOEARTH
Harvey's struggling -- he's lacking change VARY
High-flier that's unusually below par ALBATROSS
It could be free or highly valuable -- that's amusing PRICELESS
It's in taste to allow it to stand STET
Large number of stockings with a hole in -- 6 perhaps! CHOOSE
Leaflet from worker on strike HANDOUT
Leg ring available if required ONCALL
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Less common initially, Art and English being interspersed among reading, writing and arithmetic RARER
Load of engineers going into action FREIGHT
Must cast out piece of soot SMUT
One doesn't consciously go into it TRANCE
One making cuts, resetting an exam AXEMAN
Peacekeeping type, we hear, is not requested UNSOUGHT
Select participant in Olympic kayaking PICK
Shelter is closed, welcoming in French after November NISSENHUT
Sid voiced upset: 'This CD needs watching' VIDEODISC
So much French spirit causing uncontrolled outburst TANTRUM
The precise item DEFINITEARTICLE
US force arranged to concentrate on something different REFOCUS
Venetian merchant and soldier held up by ten ANTONIO
Very obvious court order's needed over lager being spilt WRITLARGE
Volcanic crater plays a part in topographical derangement CALDERA