The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,785 - Jul 7 2018

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... hence, having no beginning or end, poem causes scramble ENCODE
After hesitation, turned up nude, getting slap in the face REBUFF
Animal pelt HARE
Bar runner from club with pain needing treatment PUBLICAN
Beg surgeon for facelift, having caught cold SCROUNGE
Binding agreement mysterious group's used to crush worker COVENANT
Bothered to take time for seconds, resulting in round figure THIRTY
Butcher cutting son causes hysterics? LAUGHTER
Club's number one in part of India -- tall story! GOALIE
Drive home's ending? ENERGY
Drive to find area next to concert hall maybe AVENUE
Fine meadow or riverside, perhaps, for Mole! BEAUTYSPOT
Food supplement put team on course SIDEDISH
Fruit is planted amid downpour RAISIN
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Light meal the French originally shelled out for OMELETTE
Makes tracks in advance of drunken rep's order to come round clubs PRERECORDS
Man whose limit may be one across and two down? KNIGHT
One relays creepy messages of courses in Paris and Berlin by management OUIJABOARD
Place to hang hospital garment? WARDROBE
Present that bloke goes on about HERE
Reversible raincoats to take to the cleaners SCAM
Risky material, 'First Love' penned by idiot ASBESTOS
Row of homes? DOMESTIC
Rugby player that's employed in theatre PROP
Severe forecast -- ring entrepreneurs for clothing ASTRINGENT
Staffing that's opposed by feminists? MANPOWER
Very loud penetrating poet is sadly on the wrong track ... OFFPISTE
Villain receiving old-fashioned look after page's introduction PROLOGUE