The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,083 - Apr 8 2016

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Adds different colours to very small sign around entrance VARIEGATES
and 2 Down: Crazy English sweetheart heading off to be given new look MADE
and 24 Down: Busy type, awfully smart -- they'll get put down in the pub BEER
Areas of interest for comic actor FIELDS
Composer among rich and elegant characters HANDEL
Conciliator to pop up around the Home Counties APPEASER
Cook with herb -- a specified health-giving amount? DOSAGE
Feline once caught rodent outside REXCAT
Fervour of old lover getting recognition EXCITATION
French in charge? There's bitterness to begin with GALLIC
Instrument is one not working -- engineer needed ORGANISE
Journey over lake reveals rubbish DRIVEL
Knight gets irritable going around in splendour FINERY
Naughty Sal I beheld in a state of undress DESHABILLE
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Not appropriate to be wearing informal attire? UNSUITED
Reprimand that comes with the bashing of drum? EARFUL
Restlessness evident in self-identification of G&S character IMPATIENCE
Rob's warm garment FLEECE
See 10 Across MATS
See 24 Across OVER
Soldier on the ball having accepted top-class advice GUIDANCE
Swimming gear in luggage TRUNKS
Talk from head of college about poetry CONVERSE
Team getting cross, upset, making emergency exit? SIDEDOOR
Tennis stroke bringing advantage FOREHAND
This person leading the side is crying MEWING
Tree providing fruit, no end, east of river POMELO
Twist that surprisingly brings Tory gain GYRATION