The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 27,503 - May 30 2014

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A hundred animals devouring odd items of food CRUMPETS
A jewel has turned up -- it's enormous MEGA
Alarm should be loud? Correct! FRIGHTEN
Awful crack gathering dust TRASHY
Be more laid back, stupid! MINDLESS
Becoming wily when penning English, this writer flipped SEEMLY
Bottle tramp wrapped in lots of paper REHOBOAM
Cheat and criminal getting caught out -- put in bird ROOK
Friend trapped in Asian country -- where this was used destructively NAPALM
Gang -- it may go by rail for criminal activity BANDITRY
Give away secrets in hotel lounge TELL
God gets place of the Egyptians overthrown ZEUS
Good-looker's mission that was out of this world APOLLO
International organisation suffers things best hidden in polite society? UNDIES
Island that could give us energy supply GUERNSEY
Member of teenage group changing style with diffidence MODESTLY
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One gets upset during awful frost -- was it this? FORECAST
One insect's nipped ten goats IBEXES
One losing heart, dejected inside, recently OFLATE
One part of plant or a second lacking oxygen ANTHER
Out-of-date academic died PASSEDON
Pussy clawing very little men in frolic CAVORT
Rebuke sounded in Midlands university's accommodation KEELHAUL
Relation needing a bit of money to cross America COUSIN
Spice plant makin' progress, from what we hear CUMMIN
The countryside turning brown by northern river NATURE
The group of us facing a defeat get utterly tired WEAROUT
The woman secluded by trees made a sibilant sound WOOSHED
Thus little woman needs vessel for short stay SOJOURN
Town employees north of ring road STAFFORD
Twit belonging to the upper classes matured and softened ASSUAGED
When to resign? Hard for a PM ASQUITH