The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 25,690 - Aug 8 2008

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A king beset by a depravity - - greed AVARICE
About to make oneself scarce when there's censure CHIDE
Adoring university food FONDU
Call to embrace women and act like a star TWINKLE
Celebration when a prisoner returns GALA
Depression is beginning to threaten professional practitioner DENTIST
Dictator's crank, working out alternative incentives CARROTANDSTICK
Don't stop vehicle that is crossing river CARRYON
Finished article almost completely coarse THROUGH
Forward movement very restricted in a waltz, say ADVANCE
Good butter - but not much of it? GRAM
Happens to get some rioting in vessel Comesup
Huge car certain to look inappropriate for member of clergy Curateincharge
Huge gongs on middle of chest OBESE
Job makes request after first sign of trouble TASK
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Nil gaiety is very different from this GENIALITY
Old province featured in European journal ANJOU
Outside in the Luxembourg Gardens? ENPLEINAIR
Pet in truck is suffering KISS
Radical being ignored? LEFT
Right inside America, former PM stars URSAMAJOR
Risky poem funny at the start and finish IFFY
Somehow creep into party RECEPTION
Sort of name unusual for Cypriot man PATRONYMIC
State in which no elephant will be seen? AMNESIA
Study coin classification, not allowing mind to wander Concentrating
Under poetic location in Wales NEATH
Understand what photographer may be sent out to do GETTHEPICTURE
Valuable material smashed by crane NACRE
Vehicle is landing on Mercury, circling in and disappearing VANISHING