The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,480 - Apr 19 2009

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Bachelor very happy � not before time BELATED
Bumpy � like 2009, for example? UNEVEN
Call for help when workers celebrate MAYDAY
CD, say, with person providing backing who notes what's good and bad? RECORDINGANGEL
Classic location for people taking lessons RACECOURSE
Comfortable in someone's arms? Just the opposite SNUG
Commercial opening for a kind of calendar ADVENT
Cooked, in a way, as guided by Nick DEVILLED
Describing how France is divided, become absent-minded? DEPARTMENTALLY
English poet bashful about French woman SHELLEY
Glove to fetch relative left inside GAUNTLET
How to get somewhere, using unusual discretion Directions
In relation to fingers, not using hands DIGITAL
It could be central to having creative ideas, however LATERALTHINKING
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Officer, by no means exceptional GENERAL
Old, old boy turning up in wine-shop BODEGA
One way to get pear juice for media event PRESSCONFERENCE
Region in Far East AREA
Section of newspaper best for this kind of publishing DESKTOP
Sentence composer before court VERDICT
Shoot pictures, initially, developed into these? PHOTOS
Somehow do the maths, initially � how? METHOD
Sounds like part played in revolutionary movement ROLL
Try in big rugby match TEST
Versatile player joins everyone encircling monarch ALLROUNDER
Was appropriate for fellow I took a gamble about BEFITTED
Wealthy person with old lover, not a common type NOBLEMAN
Where many wheels spin at end of rally MONTECARLO