The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27440

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Bitten by sheep, a graduate leaves under wraps tea bag
Brown beverage to take home from audition BRUNETTE
Delivery of first Christmas meal, menu having changed EMMANUEL
Downgrading of French proposal DEMOTION
Extra information from border not amounting to much SIDELIGHT
Fifty percent of members bound to participate in this event? three-legged race
Horrific experience in Black Sea for Caesar NIGHTMARE
Horse in literature in contortions through pain WRITHING
I didn't quite catch that dance excuse-me
Intimate conclusion of plot not revealed CLOSET
Laundry appliance no good with men's clothing MANGLE
More than one prime game FIVES
Officer holding strange belief makes provision for safety aboard life belt
One squad's short of a pair ITEM
One-time radical husband attempting to conceal baldness? WHIG
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Philatelist ultimately understands stamps TREADS
Region and former kingdom — it's east of South America SUSSEX
Returning old pack, tore off a strip and added more ELABORATED
Rogue trader ballyhoo accompanies always RACKETEER
Seabird crossing land offshore to find vegetation tree fern
Some of clergy readers forming circle GYRE
Tax this writer's column IMPOST
Treating children terribly, a patricide PAEDIATRIC
Two couples rejected church's corruption VICE
Upright object supporting leg on end
Were pound to plummet, this contract could provide support LEASE
Woman consumer stopped by force some time later HEREAFTER
You need time to get to know this fellow CELLMATE
Young rascal placing bets loses second grand GAMIN