The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,960 - Jul 15 2018

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Ambiguous prophecy, or a non-U thing like this? ORACLE
Area following shameful action in 19th-century war zone CRIMEA
As part of black comedy, turned to ridicule MOCK
Benefit from something made from rice SAKE
Coat initially put on demure monarch PRIMER
Cold cut of meat, or game CRIB
Eliot the writer? Not he GEORGE
Essay about current record of events in book group TRILOGY
Female is clothed in this, possibly SHIFT
Given legal status supporting African country's education FORMALISED
Having dropped off former PM's article, returned ASLEEP
Is one crazy? That's what we hear NOISE
It helps to know one's place when one returns to work BOOKMARK
Keep a man in it, needing to be reformed MAINTAIN
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Makers of chains, we hear, for wild cat LYNX
Man on board protecting a wild ox, going by boat KAYAKING
Mathematical tasks are set up for Dutch scholar ERASMUS
Odd characters in photos are said to be pitiable POOR
Odd man is absurdly appearing in suit DIAMONDS
Police raid disrupted magazine PERIODICAL
Previously referred to supervisors in a note I'd composed AFOREMENTIONED
Rising that's trapping one on island, South Seas paradise TAHITI
Severely criticise second strike SLAM
Sounded like pigs in old used pen OINKED
State that's normal as Kansas at heart ALASKA
Way to achieve entrance as backward children, English learners DOORBELL
What's excellent about a metal or another PLATINUM
With regret, a poet logically has log moved APOLOGETICALLY