The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 26,272 - Jun 21 2010

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Clues Answers
A mother for the first orphan? ADAM
A reversible action DEED
An outside line to ring TANGENT
An outstanding leader of men BOSS
Birds seen when another ascends AUKS
Call round to set up joint management DUALCONTROL
Camera for young girl who promises to do her best BROWNIE
Captain Kidd, perhaps, lost his head in a rage IRATE
Challenge the basis of capitalism COMPETITION
Change the course of a revolution TURN
Famous actor making a comeback? Nonsense! RATS
Getting a small rise, I'll get in some wine HILLOCK
Guns are raised in this game STAG
He was bound to begin, but not finish, his performance HOUDINI
He's after a feline clutching a strip of leather -- disaster! CATASTROPHE
His Christmas present was one of three SCROOGE
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His victims lose heart EROS
Householder in no hurry to move SNAIL
Jumbo jet propeller? TRUNK
Keys admit private secretary to part of church APSE
La Costa resort by the sea COASTAL
Lineages got from him? Yes GENEALOGIST
One involved in unusual cost was philosophical STOIC
Possibly ignores an Italian man's entitlement SIGNORE
Resistance units initially on the monarch's behalf OHMS
Ring starts twitching of the ear OTIC
Struck by the way a sale may be concluded KNOCKEDDOWN
They have lots to offer AUCTIONEERS
They may be found in a creel, squirming EELS
Top dog of the Variety Club? CHIEFBARKER
Wild blow leads to dispute with non-intellectual LOWBROW
Wolves, say, or beasts of burden PACKANIMALS