The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,019 - Jan 25 2016

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A capital forward AHEAD
A sorry state, but showing promise PLIGHT
Additional information that an organist might provide FOOTNOTE
Being biased, booked with pride? PREJUDICE
Check a word that is an anagram of itself STIFLE
Church manses converted for bishop, say CHESSMAN
Course of study by French department CONSOMME
Don't strive to get the meaning DRIFT
Elderly carrying on is to be suffered AGONISED
Esther staggers around at entertainment venues THEATRES
Fashionable diets which change with the times TIDES
Giving an alternative sort of threat ORELSE
Grant permission to break silence LICENSE
Offer that is about right, or one below par? BIRDIE
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One hangs about being super-cool ICICLE
Part of cricket ground constrained by a railway BOUNDARY
Peerage in which we see uncommon breed and race meeting DEBRETT
Place almost packed -- parking in it is unpleasant SPITEFUL
Present oneself with a soft fruit APPEAR
Promises of party in show ring MANIFESTO
Relate minutely in dock? DETAIL
Sally that assists in the laboratory RETORT
Sounds suitable wear for an early funeral MORNINGDRESS
The settlement is due to him CREDITOR
Trying to write with such a pencil would be POINTLESS
Unusual forenames for a lodger? FREEMASON
What musicians should do before playing these MASTERPIECES
Worker encountered me coming up first EMMET