The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,486 - May 31 2009

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'Love in the fifties' � work that's inelegantly bound LOLLOP
A little work politician put in, after drinks SHORTSTORY
American type, a chap disturbed by European APACHE
Angela Merkel, for example, listening to works of Schubert LEADER
Being upwardly mobile, and so revolting RISING
Churchman having tea without milk or sugar CHAPLAIN
Confession from procrastinator or pagan IDOLATER
Don't push record as old as we are DISCOURAGE
Emotional pang among left-wingers TWINGE
English composer of high stature lives here TALLIS
Expectation of success, as far as one can see PROSPECT
Expert helping one see a topic in a different way OPTICIAN
Frenchman in Resistance getting back outside BRETON
Get away from exam, being first to finish? FLEETEST
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Hear about a match ending prematurely in burlesque TRAVESTY
Ideas, nevertheless, had by Eliot, initially THOUGHTS
Information about stimulating stuff surfaces FACETS
It's an old craft, making glass SCHOONER
It's good to get a little illumination GASLIGHT
People in Middle East upending king into river ISRAELIS
Person preparing actors for classic Western STAGECOACH
Platforms some of Metro's trains used ROSTRA
Puzzle's meaning heartlessly distorted ENIGMA
Rigid group of players meeting press CASTIRON
Shoot jet going over river SPROUT
Skill shown by Ted Heath, say, with boats STATECRAFT
Station American in English college EUSTON
Swindle taking in the press is amusing performer COMEDIAN