The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,567 - Oct 25 2017

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Adopt mainly dull and nice changes INCLUDE
Calls and records a sale RINGSUP
Count Basie perhaps vetoed broadcast, needing editor's opinion BANDLEADER
Crush fly DASH
Draught beer's top for this idiot AIRHEAD
Entertainer who was bound to show unconfined relief HOUDINI
Extend stage to include end of apron afterwards LENGTHEN
Flier confined by ambassador to land ORTOLAN
Former king with a line on the side LATERAL
Friend from Spain making a motorway turn AMIGO
Head of government permits spirits, showing such wit GALLOWSHUMOUR
Independent female protected by friendly source of power WINDFARM
Located audit set for revision SITUATED
Mass with moral sets off destructive situations MAELSTROMS
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Observer in privy meeting with broker, half cut ONLOOKER
One cuts copies up in colour SEPIA
Pity, for the most part, is pretence SHAM
Prison involved in raising of merit systems STIR
Put on new clothes with fashionable source and did a turn? CHANGEDCOURSE
Remain absorbed by tatty rug that's not as attractive UGLIER
Set up as prisoner and judged CONFIGURED
Shape a student in accordance with convention FORMAL
Shifty last retailer picked up tableware item SALTCELLAR
Softens, finding the French trapped in leases RELENTS
Speakers supporting company dance set up as partners in crime COLLABORATORS
Traditionalists sign after performance by soldiers REACTIONARIES
Weep, hugging Liberal -- a slovenly type SLOB
Wrong in law to accept soldiers suffering TORMENT