The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,977 - Feb 18 2019

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A lack of faith in his team, unfortunately ATHEISM
Almost excuse sailor, a pantomime hero ALIBABA
Area to decorate round university's central hall ATRIUM
Automatic responses concerning cables REFLEXES
Best possible sides made master delirious DREAMTEAMS
Book's author getting rid of one for nothing AMOS
Enlisted troops from different stations OTHERRANKS
Forward's second goal SEND
French daily taking in a drink LEMONADE
Go round old gallery after opening of retrospective ROTATE
Injury boost? (1,4,2,3,3) ASHOTINTHEARM
Left, went on holiday? Tookonesleave
Like appeals close to Yuletide PLEASE
Loyalist beginning to pontificate at uprising PATRIOT
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Malice shown by Democrat, European, notwithstanding DESPITE
Master, say, given assortment of chocolates by that woman SCHOOLTEACHER
Measure top of tall mirror TAPE
Offended in broadcast PUTOUT
Poet in pub, Duke's Head BARD
Pound, English family dish RAMEKIN
Pull in at plot ATTRACT
Record can astonish JAILHOUSEROCK
Risk outrage south of border ENDANGER
Servant in pad on island FOOTMAN
Signs of excess weight carried by motorists? SPARETYRES
Spaniard, perhaps, and one from Monrovia left out? IBERIAN
Wager the Spanish fiend supplies a narcotic BETELNUT
Wally in ripper, a sentimental film? TEARJERKER