The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,859 - Jul 31 2016

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Academic penning papers is tiresome DRAGSON
Appear in place of bishop, taking mass SEEM
Attractive urgent coverage for legal support team PREPOSSESSING
Carry on once unit is given new order CONTINUE
Clubs make certain statement attributing blame CENSURE
Cut short awkward old cowboy GAUCHO
Doesn't understand I'm upset, perhaps wrongly, over aims MISAPPREHENDS
Former partner having case for enforcement of payment EXACTION
Get engaged repeatedly in schemes Holmes hatched MESH
Global organisation badly tainted within alliances UNITEDNATIONS
Group of swimmers before the race upset instructor SCHOOLTEACHER
Have second thoughts about condition covering European disadvantages RECONSIDER
Home for nocturnal creature fixed ahead of time SETT
HQ for force in Waterloo, say STATION
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I'll feature prominently in his speech EGOTIST
In war, can accept things being kept secret ARCANA
It sounds like sweetheart does, for instance DEER
It's used for opening act in theatre SCALPEL
Kind of ball fashioned around square, oddly MASQUERADE
Like those in charge, chap set over African country shifting left MANAGERIAL
On the rocks, possibly needing silver bullet AGROUND
Organised party membership, initially unsystematic RANDOM
PC, for example, frantically cut rope binding maiden COMPUTER
Poke fun at a politician in flier LAMPOON
Put the 'A' in art, essentially ATHEART
Serious type, in this way, also embracing monarch SOBERSIDES
Study about soul I misrepresented in error DELUSION
Surfing, maybe at equator ONLINE