The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,659 - Sep 30 2012

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A search after pet in grave situation CATACOMB
Attempt smart merger, meeting as partners TRYSTING
Bone from joint gourmet ultimately put in Spanish dish PATELLA
Changed into a president � inevitable fate? PREDESTINATION
Checked, for example, how many votes told RECOUNTED
Determinedly set, that guy is going to be not disheartened HELLBENT
Emotionless university official admitting 500 every year DEADPAN
Father's expressed appreciation for food PASTA
Form of communication Conservative accomplished CABLE
Form of transport, note, linked with city of Paris mainly METRO
Girl with sign showing what some people make SALARIES
Group given mission some in government ask for? Certainly TASKFORCE
I will josh about area that's not comfortable ILLATEASE
In jail, unchained? One will never be free, they say LUNCH
Like initial problems produced by article on part of course TEETHING
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Man in game that's almost certainly spotted DOMINO
Mistakenly declare acquitted CLEARED
Momentum in second eleven STEAM
Most rum toddies must be drunk without one ODDEST
Old composer left on island in kind way, with excessive care OVERDILIGENTLY
Periods of good fortune � excited, as a result UPSHOT
Person using lawyer, say, securing legal right in court CLIENT
Person who's stopped working on Scottish island RETIREE
Possible cause of drunken brawl and a lot of gunfire BARRAGE
Precipitously reduced energy that marked end of cross-country race? STEEPLE
Pressure showing in, for example, cricket test INSPECT
Put together a score, not 27 COMPOSED
Rook and duck protected by another bird -- or another HERON
Wicked and so unfair, wrongfully imprisoning European NEFARIOUS
You can't drive anywhere in this dilapidated Renault NEUTRAL