The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 27,885 - Aug 20 2015

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Catch fish, interrupted by small, small bird NESTLING
Duty Queen performed with Freddie's heart ERRAND
Fellow, ancient, seeing wrinkle FOLD
Greasy lumps in retreat? On the contrary ASYLUM
Green GI needed to carry apparatus ENGINE
Gruff detective taking over MOROSE
Guru's followers on hill MENTOR
Instrument's bent with room to play TROMBONE
Man-eating monster thus brought back by ship OGRESS
Missionary making contact in unending country PREACHER
Plug breach at sea ADRIFT
Porcelain incorporating cool cat CHINCHILLA
Propositions sweetheart leaving dodgy threesome THEOREMS
Real civilisation, initially where Zeus was born CONCRETE
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Referee and one supporter turned renegade, we hear ARBITRATOR
Right split about the first female rector REVEREND
Romantic Bond perhaps keeping trim SLOPPY
Rotten cop I fancy extorting money PROTECTION
Secret past revealed in court COVERT
Shapeless half-nude with blouse undone NEBULOUS
Spoils are not commonly wrapped by heartless thieves TAINTS
Starts to fabricate implausibly bogus stories FIBS
Steal and it's arrest and prison NICK
Tabloid king hit rock bottom? SUNK
Tap stuck in barrel? Wrench it, say FAUCET
Terrible conceit -- grew endlessly selfish EGOCENTRIC
Unit of force, current and weight NEWTON
Wavering atheist accepting new changes HESITANT