The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 27,539 - Jul 11 2014

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Aussie beast has pain sitting down ROOSTING
Broadcast favouring assertion PROCLAIM
Comes across dossier with CV falsified DISCOVERS
Description of scale that could be found in ancient pot PENTATONIC
Dog nibbled companion BITCH
Edmund's put away inside to be spruced up NEATENED
Emphasise good news about lost sheep? RAMHOME
Engineer in factory wasting time PLAN
Engineers leading rebellion get back RECOUP
Excuse of an era preceding electronic messages? PRETEXT
Ghosts -- sort primarily associated with hell? SHADES
Hesitation about loud rude men spoiling democratic procedure REFERENDUM
Hidden within moor, pink plant ORPIN
Holy type at university I would put down as 'laughable' STUPID
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It's a bit of a fag being laughed at BUTT
Leader holds river game in much bigger water area BOSPORUS
Little devil in charge of one small building deprived of necessities? IMPOVERISHED
Man entering pit shortly finds dog COLLIE
One adds decoration to a tile HATBAND
One intercepting gas is a sort of thief PIRATE
One spews out rubbish, spoiling river dell DRIVELLER
Peaceful army overcoming vandals, nasty men in capital city SANSALVADOR
Row about divine female and theologian immersed in drink -- it's nonsense! FIDDLEFADDLE
Spot us involved in chancy exercise TOSSUP
The prose mostly inappropriate? Bit of poetry called for STROPHE
The rioting gets in the way of modern rule METHOD
Writer, mostly haughty when seen on street PROUST