The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 26,617 - Jul 29 2011

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Army left with powder no good for fighting! TALCUM
Bizarre dream with trollops and 'unspiritual' peers LORDSTEMPORAL
Brown animals heading west across island SEPIA
Charming visitors at Christmas (short visit) MAGICAL
Duke and stranger ramble in talk DODDER
Essence of Eastern book about Greek character EPITOME
Examinations made by detectives turning up to interrupt dinners maybe MEDICALS
Good African dictator once a street urchin GAMIN
Introduction to show with an instrument providing welcome SALUTE
Little bit of affair -- maybe croon about it SMATTERING
Male tucking into rotten organic stuff, a sort of dip HUMMUS
Network offering 'Culture' -- I'm excited RETICULUM
Noise of bells leads to a fight DINGDONG
One who's left something in shelter outside entrance LEGATEE
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Pain would get learner going to uni doc in the past LUMBAGO
Rate poet awful as provider of light entertainment OPERETTA
Sailor needs helper -- not the first English person to do a bunk ABSCONDER
School attire needed when one is in a French class UNIFORM
Show always being brought back -- enthralling for all the family? REVUE
Stubborn Prince, conceited leader being deposed PIGHEADED
Time very short for rising star VEGA
Top gallery? I walked up to get to it DECAPITATE
Underground worker changes having drunk whisky and, initially, non-alcoholic drinks MINERALWATERS
Understatement in stories about small child LITOTES
Various meals out with close buddy SOULMATE
Volume of claret I'd drunk? End of life would follow! DECALITRE
What sounds like a foreign city ramble ROAM
Within dam there's a source of power STEAM