The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,606 - Dec 9 2017

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Attendant about to upset soup POTAGE
Bit of food Greek character and I found in river NUTRIENT
Breathe out repeatedly making child's engine for 1 PUFFPUFF
Brief a student -- it's not official INFORMAL
Cavalryman seen in northern county town strangely sat out LANCER
Chord reproduced in opera gig ARPEGGIO
Companion always providing comfort CHEER
Criticise a metropolitan area's greed RAPACITY
Go off duty, keep a low profile? STANDDOWN
Great as rioting control material? TEARGAS
In burrow, northern insect getting heated INDIGNANT
In need of food country area's lacking HUNGRY
Irritable and so on in your old surroundings TETCHY
Lines of communication? RAILWAY
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Main goal to remove bloomer MAGNOLIA
Rule said pets will be needed for pelt RAINCATSANDDOGS
Sacred text fellow's appended to paintings from the East MANTRA
Set off for school in time DETONATE
Speaker's prohibited articles from Left and Right that may go over one's head BANDANNA
Stuff in the sea rafter's located by not capsizing PLANKTON
Swallow most of drink MARTIN
Take to court over retaining worth and title in retirement EMERITUS
Trade union newspaper site originally having most small branches? TUFTIEST
Trendy shop arriving soon INSTORE
Vehicle's parked over half that -- it's worth its weight in gold CARAT
Very well, that's 100 per cent accurate ALLRIGHT
Wordplay involving a horse and another farmyard animal ANAGRAM