The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,729 - Feb 2 2014

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A Conservative using public transport? You can count on it ABACUS
Aesthetically unconventional daughter's on a platform on time DADAIST
Announced what's going to happen to one charitable function FETE
Apt to embrace king that's pleasant LIKABLE
Be embracing novel gold bar idea -- as opposed to plastic, for instance BIODEGRADABLE
Cryptic in Telegraph I'd denigrated HIDDEN
Doctor Who's theatrical performance SHOW
Dries out inside, not dry outside? Most odd WEIRDEST
Fruit bats BANANAS
Grenade tossed over line blew up ENLARGED
Hint about one's home cooking CUISINE
I can be found in trance -- in altered state, for sure CERTAIN
Is single, occupying dull accommodation MAISONETTE
Leading men in awful cast I pan CAPTAINS
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Loud instrument makes neighbour upset TUBA
Making new offence up, within reasonable limits MODERNISATION
Mate recollected Rome and another Italian city PALERMO
Not positive about one British form of transport MINIBUS
One of those competing in uniform, including half of team CONTESTANT
Oriental cut European flower for festival EASTER
Place to find info, within a ship, on ammo BULLETINBOARD
Reverses under shade in these vehicles HATCHBACKS
Serve two couples holding hands in a corner, finally ANSWER
Small woolly jumper for cute infant LAMBKIN
Somehow reclaim a phone that can take pictures PINHOLECAMERA
Stars and stripes, say, taken back inside by certain GIs nightly INSIGNIA
Starts off building line of command in multinational group BLOC
Watches, for example, man in rival publication TIMEPIECES