The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,566 - Oct 24 2017

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A loser staggering, out of energy, an unplaced competitor ALSORAN
A tower erected to store produce in citadel ACROPOLIS
An introduction to Chaucer in capital tale ROMANCE
Anagram in bottom row REARRANGE
Animals (two of them) making heavy metal WOLFRAM
Antoine, developing student at college ETONIAN
Climber to catch up on correct procedure detailed TENDRIL
Cue employing a rest REMAINDER
Discussion involving singular herb PARSLEY
Dog someday must be trained SAMOYED
Drink needed after Foreign Office meeting FORUM
Fancy better cereal CAPRICE
Female I found wearing such a plastic flower FUCHSIA
Granny eager to find buff-coloured cloth NANKEEN
Having a spherical shape bored out ORBED
I suffer, having backed lad's affair LIAISON
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Ice, mostly, round edges of inner lake RESERVOIR
Idly draw wire in bomb DOODLEBUG
Lecturer bringing in about a million? You wish! DREAMON
One's job is delivering someone else's work ACTOR
Perhaps Nero's representative during Rome uprising EMPEROR
Plant's small advantage SEDGE
Playwright's single book: 'Every Way But West' IBSEN
Pure blue appropriate DOWNRIGHT
Queen in ruin or holding tax over MARYTUDOR
Rough seas in cup competition with jumps PUISSANCE
Sheer, the Parisian tower STEEPLE
Takes long steps in street, then trips STRIDES
Therefore cover is reliable SOLID
Widespread disgust shown by platform firing leader ODIUM
Wife returned, about to fly off the handle STORM
Wonder about Lake poet MARVELL