The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 27,588 - Sep 6 2014

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Apres-ski, maybe when it's less expensive? OFFPEAK
Atlas, perhaps, setter sent back GOD
Beastly bloomer needs earth LUPINE
Bird from Sweden going to bask SWALLOW
Book hike in bush BRAMBLE
Cry aloud for one in shellfish�s grip PROCLAIM
Engineers wrong to answer back RETORT
Exotic scarab is in plant BRASSICA
Fellow almost trapping spy -- a kind of red MAGENTA
For him, work is a grind MILLER
Frozen stiff in fine outfit shown by papers FRIGID
Game birds -- or wolf, possibly? WILDFOWL
Had a good press? IRONED
I won't visit grave containing watery liquid SEROUS
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Ill-balanced poles did topple LOPSIDED
Implication concerning way of speaking OVERTONE
In decline, how long idling untidily? GOINGDOWNHILL
Later, slightly confused, say nothing for close friend ALTEREGO
Lops head off flower ASPHODEL
Man's great upset before reaching hospital GARETH
Money-spinner? ROULETTEWHEEL
Nerd is in Shakespearean character on course, moving student LEARNERDRIVER
Patient's protracted agony LONGSUFFERING
Public transport isn't quite bankrupt BUS
Regularly sourced raw material ORE
Type of bowling that's not on leg! UNDERARM
When one expects a letter from Crete? ETA
You should set down in lake and away from the sea INLAND