The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 26,031 - Sep 11 2009

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Awkward situation when academic room's put next to a gym SCRAPE
Became comfortable in beast's home, having got shown the way SETTLED
Bird runs ahead with wings clipped RHEA
Boy upset half the girls in US city DALLAS
Butler deployed around back of room to offer a glass TUMBLER
Coloured bead is broken BIASED
Conference centre being idiotic, cease going back POTSDAM
Course of action unreasonable, heartless STEP
Cricket? One of the XI is a sort of warden GAMEKEEPER
Deceive a thousand ladies naughtily MISLEAD
Female hugging the Parisian is an exceptional beauty HELEN
Irish writer's college GOLDSMITHS
Mad person's shell? NUTCASE
Mum, right friend to begin with MATER
Neat, normal, frightfully pretty ORNAMENTAL
Old king's daughter, singer making return DAVID
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Old stars getting a spread at the meal table OLEO
Operatic composer in film business to start with BIZET
Pair holding English translation to be a misrepresentation PERVERSION
Permanently resting performer seen as demanding person EXACTOR
Place of residence that's sumptuous - in short, grand HOMERIC
Possible result of road rage when one's stuck in traffic TIRADE
Remarkable person one on the way out? No good ONER
Sailor cautious -- whale lurking! ORCA
Silk handkerchief shows an Eastern inn KHAN
Study bids to get work from competitors CONTENDERS
Think British priest will be attracted to temptress BELIEVE
Those people taking subject, not finishing THEM
Try once more to get Carol practising REHEARSING
When bookmakers get worried they may change for the better ODDS
Women fix heaters all over the shop THEFAIRSEX
Youth's progress upwards when receiving state aid ADOLESCENT