The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,613 - Dec 18 2017

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A part, once it's revised SECTION
Backing group providing cool beat FANCLUB
Bishop lounged unsteadily in club BLUDGEON
Computer device doctor has to operate MOUSE
Control force POWER
Dilapidated inn to fail in time of price increases INFLATION
Don boasted about revealing diarist's last words? ANDSOTOBED
Drove in another direction HERD
Egg on single girl to be spendthrift PRODIGAL
England supporter offers misplaced help in goal ANGLOPHILE
Entertainment from Diana's firm DISCO
Eric came round for dessert ICECREAM
Feeble joke in cracker not dry enough to work? DAMPSQUIB
Grand old politician with the gift of the gab GLIB
In the lead -- by so much? AHEAD
It's soothing when you have to concentrate COMPRESS
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Landlords will be characters LETTERS
Money is bait that takes many in LUCRE
Off Aden, tar moves from bow to stern? FOREANDAFT
Rotational forces -- they last only a short time MOMENTS
Scope of the Bard? BREADTH
Shellfish not in extract? WINKLEOUT
Soldiers should meet general coming back RECURRENT
Suspend terms of reference REMIT
They accept what is sound EARS
They move around in pride LIONS
Thin disc made of iron used in fighting WAFER
To want that is right, though comparatively broke? NEEDIER
US seasonal slump? FALL
Very little car sickness MINIMAL
Waylay Rose, perhaps BUTTONHOLE
Widow's exhortation to take gamble DOWAGER