The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,864 - Sep 4 2016

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Advocate having hours reduced in plant CHAMPION
After reform, valiant citizen liberated from USSR LATVIAN
Agile performer ultimately taken in by agent SPRY
Bad gal erred in becoming first offender? RINGLEADER
Call for verse within novel I revised INVOLVE
Cricket clubs out to lunch? BATS
Designed, with pen guided by hand STYLED
European entering very pleasant Italian city VENICE
Expel chaps before start of term for behaviour DEPORTMENT
Feature of assembly line confused boy -- not clever CONVEYORBELT
Form of payment that's doubled, we hear, for European inspection CHEQUE
Go back on agreement, rejecting its conclusion RETREAT
I am, regrettably, requiring return fare from Italy SALAMI
Igneous rock cut at the lowest level BASAL
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Nobody else could have been this picture's producer SELFPORTRAIT
Not odd number for service EVENSONG
Recent changes over article providing focus of attention CENTREPIECE
Retire inside partly, not entirely DEPART
Six iron, say, oddly unpractical VISIONARY
Soldier on horse crossing a street in northern city LANCASTER
Some assemblymen ending up in opposition ENEMY
Stressful activity in court TRYING
Sublime witticism I loaded into computer MAJESTIC
Take back order, supposing that it's sliced fish or meat FILLET
Was attentive and inclined to absorb point after point LISTENED
Went about enunciating what diplomats require TACKED
Without any qualifications, say, left university finally UTTERLY