The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 27,495 - May 21 2014

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A credit expert's beginning to get the measure of land ACRE
An apartment with nothing in it, on the surface AFLOAT
An Indian sea cut off at the south? BALTI
Carbon test for marine growth CORAL
Cold precedes increases in emergencies CRISES
Cover for dried salt processed without one STRADDLE
Daughter cooking strange fish caught by these DRAGNETS
Depression created by study on origin of Twitter DENT
Equipment carried by sailors on a raft SONAR
Fellow serving spinach dish for dinner maybe FISHANDCHIPS
Footballers book most of lush material FABRIC
Footballers? Small people who cry! SWEEPERS
Four absorbed by frantic search for record collections ARCHIVES
Frequently possessed by 'X' OFTEN
Group from Ireland set up after bed COTERIE
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Hold Basque separatists during ruckus DETAIN
How a diver usually gets in top gear to start HEADFIRST
Laid-back approach to date with personal defeat DOWNBEAT
Lick and stick PASTE
On which one takes a call from a fence? RECEIVER
Part of a convict's biography? LIFESENTENCE
Reason given from French and Italian leader DEDUCE
Show contempt for name adopted by prophet SNEER
Sold for church during fair on day FETCHED
The centre of that unusual capital in Africa HARARE
Tough battle with electronic computer components HARDWARE
Tradesman handing out medals? DECORATOR
Troubled mate has job getting cooperation TEAMWORK
What cook may need to provide popular starter on time? TINOPENER
When one caught by individual is slander ASPERSION