The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 24,704 - May 20 2009

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Bold man securing second billion in capital LISBON
Built as arranged around northern capital at one time ISTANBUL
Capital invested by Russians during WW2 BUDAPEST
Capital is raised in form of a coin NICOSIA
Capital of Mogul empire shown in diagram AGRA
Create bad upset, having released repressed emotions ABREACTED
D-day commander seen in state capital MONTGOMERY
Decorator I nearly made crazy INLAYER
European city that is, at least initially, indispensable ESSENTIAL
Excellent references I included, many being found herein CAPITALCITIES
Flint artefact? More than one may be found in the soil EOLITH
Gym instruction by top man in place of games once PEKING
Industriously, but not gently, creating capital in Asia DILI
Kind of humour found in pupils' surroundings AQUEOUS
King and queen over one bit of Scandinavian capital KRONE
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Lively dance disheartened star of many epics CHARLESTON
Old form of capital in Europe set aside PESETAS
Pagans he initially abandoned in capital ATHENS
Part of capital I reinvested, now replaced by euros LIRE
Part of old European capital in south, getting colder SCHILLING
Pasta — Italian's finishing with a lot NOODLES
Poet's pronouncement for Commonwealth state's capital SYDNEY
Point in moon orbit, one with a reduced pull involved APOLUNE
Pro entering work meeting ahead of time BEFORE
Signed agreement is overturned in Middle East city SIDON
Surgeon holding an obsolete kind of capital FRANCS
Unfortunately, Lima's a poor capital ISLAMABAD
Where peace accords were reached, for some too slowly OSLO
Woman taken back from Paris to a state capital HELENA