The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,619 - Dec 26 2017

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Clues Answers
500 Royal Engineers put on ship's clothing DRESS
Animal runs over with energy -- grass has come back ROEDEER
Beg to be in French outing? ENTREAT
Being sixteen, worried about Ecstasy EXISTENCE
Bridge players requiring ID? It will make the press NEWSPAPERS
Care to let go of a wife's hands? CREW
Count winemaker's bottles spread out UNTWINE
Curious -- being fine, I sat dance out FASCINATED
Dance with zero taste? The contrary TANGO
Expect attitude after drink SUPPOSE
Fashionable drink in outskirts of Stroud as an alternative INSTEAD
Forgotten knight returned holding nag's tail NEGLECTED
Hesitated with female going to get changed ALTERED
In secret I'd developed rash INDISCREET
Island offering cereal crop -- for the ears BALI
Jog naked around centre of Margate NUDGE
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Leading group in distress UPSET
Major half-trembles in English river EXTREME
Make hush money DOSH
Model seduced outside church? Victor did it SUCCEEDED
News chief's entertaining heads of government -- enormous creeps EDGES
Penny with object to give out PRESENT
Player making run in cricket EXTRA
Release right priest before close of day RELIEVE
Roman officers run section badly CENTURIONS
Scout did sleep, so every other character lies close CUDDLES
So upsetting for the peer, having lost power THEREFORE
Something to climb left out for snake ADDER
Spare tyres cease to rise POTS
Spells words TERMS
United Nations overturned sanction for type of weapon? NUCLEAR
Vain American embracing tennis player USELESS