The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,403 - Apr 17 2017

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A very loud manner, yet one may find romance AFFAIR
And nothing in Royal Marines is left to chance RANDOM
Animated by pride -- it's not right SPIRITED
Ball game lost by the witless? MARBLES
Divert from byway SIDETRACK
Embark on an expedition -- or an explanation SETFORTH
Fashionable lad welcomes in girl LINDA
Firm's con supported by this island? CRETE
Foreign friend and another on leave AMIGO
Fruit that was once revered in China MANDARIN
Give the call sign BECKON
Give way under pressure and opt out -- it's laughable CRACKPOT
Got there, unusually, but not by oneself TOGETHER
High-class sports science award, we hear PEDIGREE
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Maintain a lock that must turn ASSERT
Make attractive object -- listening device ENDEAR
Measure husks first for the bird CHAFFINCH
Met Blur, excitedly -- many were carried away by it and lost their heads TUMBREL
Parade, seeing April here MARCHPAST
Place and time for an insect LOCUST
Prepare to create a scene REHEARSE
Pretentious air put in as private remarks ASIDES
Ruined temple right in way, nobody turns up PARTHENON
Small arch ELFIN
Terrible outcome for lad Freud confused DREADFUL
This by itself would be in a gradual process LITTLE
Union demonstration? WEDDINGMARCH
Unswerving with determination to stay unmarried SINGLEMINDED