The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,897 - Apr 30 2017

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A vote on island initially making self-evident statement AXIOM
Absurdly grandiose, as are workers in union ORGANISED
Answer is held by majority shareholder's intermediary LIAISON
Appearance with bishop, say, providing excellent example SHOWPIECE
Appoint different agent after changing side DESIGNATE
Beat and energy in dance one can't do? TANGO
Being wrongly praised is what people hopefully avoid DESPAIR
Bird making terrible din, perhaps heartlessly SANDPIPER
China, wherein crazy Reds end in disarray DRESDEN
Convince it is, in short, fine within state SATISFY
Cub that comes out at night? URSAMINOR
Dog that is following historical novelist SCOTTIE
Fabric taken to the cleaners WORSTED
Fed up and exploited, prevented from going off DEFUSED
Fine result of cutting deal, say SAWDUST
Fleet in surprise attack seizing power RAPID
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Furnishing inside? Correct, to some extent DECOR
Grant, as president, lacking identity PRESENT
In public argument, hard to defeat OVERTHROW
Installed foreign leader, in a word PUTIN
John or James, for example, having pale ale outside APOSTLE
Like many European languages in court ROMANCE
Linger, however, after partners have left HOVER
Month needed to cover a new Indian language MAYAN
Nice location, area by stream I'll be found in RIVIERA
Perfect being lighter? Not so MATCHLESS
Run away from predator, going west then north FLOWN
Sailor taken in by awfully silly info about courses SYLLABI
Split up musical group after record cut DISBAND
Study before class how to fit in CONFORM
Tired as we are, tucking in one daughter WEARIED
Units used in one Eastern country or another INDONESIA