The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 27,672 - Dec 13 2014

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Appreciative for quantity of coal GRATEFUL
Attendant's needed after petticoat sliding SLIPPAGE
Bill I had put on in charge, that leaves a bitter taste ACIDIC
Born with real worries in relation to partner BROTHERINLAW
Business pace has two characters rising at another's expense TRADE
Case for the sewer ETUI
Chorus starts to serenade in noisy group SING
Close shave going over the top? RAZORCUT
Colour that's vulgar after a time MIDNIGHTBLUE
Curtain evidentially drawn out at intervals VEIL
European flag-bearer POLE
Flower planted in sediment is ruined SPOILT
Heavenly ale -- three drunk ETHEREAL
Hull's high-water mark PLIMSOLLLINE
Its passengers don't take flight LIFT
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Kindness to pass over diamonds given by final bequest GOODWILL
Lameness bothered representatives SALESMEN
Mammoth seen in press reaching Estonia's capital HUGE
Minute device one could go off after a while TIMEBOMB
Not favouring some indignant individuals ANTI
Object to delay, nothing's to be held up GOAL
Polish one's speech? LANGUAGE
Roman underground terminus? CATACOMB
Sailor dispatched over limitless reef one's failed to show up ABSENTEE
Same ship suffering stress EMPHASIS
Style set around one ring HAIRDO
Turn to mist and spray over Pisa VAPORISE
Unintended consequence of engineers striking REPERCUSSION
Where one learns one's social status? CLASS
Works to get across independent statement of grievance PLAINT