The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 26,809 - Mar 9 2012

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Clues Answers
Agreements to study geographical regions CONTRACTS
Arranged somehow to import old piano for entertainment GRANDOPERA
Bag stuffed back in black case SACK
Big conurbations lacking Conservative numbers of electoral significance MAJORITIES
Brian ain't fussed about woman being nation's figurehead BRITANNIA
Brief stop in Bury to join evangelistic enterprise INTERMISSION
Call from fencer employed in kitchen garden ENGARDE
Container that's damper inside? BREADBIN
Emergency organisation needs hour to get round in the fog HAAR
Encourage someone in operating theatre first off URGEON
Financial growth bringing gratitude APPRECIATION
Funny lass with bike not averse to romance? KISSABLE
Happy to have home in Africa? CONTINENT
I perform in front of fifty -- fans adore me IDOL
Keeping something that might have lost its partner in the wash? STOCKING
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Money expected to run short, Tom? DUCAT
Notice I put into church to manage ADMINISTER
One grabbed by the dreary drunk coming down the line HEREDITARY
Room that would be less than adequate for dictionary publisher CHAMBER
Society can take cheerful insult SLIGHT
Stern patriarch? ISAAC
Strikingly good or irritating? RATTLING
Tank hard to get on to islands CISTERN
The desert is such, a journey can't be ended ARID
The exploding article beginning to expel a gas ETHANE
This person's mature in public perception IMAGE
Trendy doctor, a divine being INDRA
What might excite 9 -- a nice one being executed? RAINDANCE
Worked hard and succeeded -- recorded hit SLOGGED
Yesteryear's book chain won't get book ____! ORDERS