The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,538 - May 30 2010

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Ability to respond quickly professor supposedly lacks? PRESENCEOFMIND
Careful old man at home with betting PAINSTAKING
Commercial vehicle on street helping government ADMINISTRATION
Course of treatment the writer needed in backward African country REGIMEN
Drop idea that's silly and ridiculed PARODIED
Expert at wheel, perhaps, protecting learner � one included in plan PLOTTER
Hit for star group RAM
Horrified reaction, coming in second best SCREAM
Inconsiderate yet benevolent, ultimately? Not so THOUGHTLESS
Infuriates missing king in periods without power OUTAGES
Kind of drive small car BEETLE
Kind of protection nobody else can afford SELFDEFENCE
Made approximation that wasn't highly inaccurate Underestimated
Old master I enshrined in poetry VERONESE
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One who pitches argument is in the right THROWER
One's disturbed about explosive device somebody proposed NOMINEE
Ordered in Paris pattern that's needed for sweater? ANTIPERSPIRANT
Present from magazine NOW
Raised fortune when in debt? Given another account RETOLD
Red Cross is in place for trading MARXIST
Serial I broadcast from part of Middle East ISRAELI
Sheet music RAG
Showing bias, putting worker under pressure PARTISAN
Something highly entertaining from Gilbert and Sullivan, initially GAS
To be putting son first -- that's showing gender bias SEXIST
Unorthodoxly parries with left, hitting back REPRISAL
Very cold -- round North, it's zero, possibly, in Fahrenheit several times FROZENSTIFF
Weapon I had thrown in river TRIDENT