The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 26,218 - Apr 19 2010

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A bit of a nut, the officer, we hear KERNEL
Appropriate, regarding the eastern Mediterranean RELEVANT
Chest is tender after cold COFFER
Cleric upset a group of people CIRCLE
Consents, but will be a long time coming round again AGREES
Crazy, perhaps, but often with motive LOCO
Current male desire ACHE
Cuts and shares out SHEARS
East European not quite in bondage SLAV
Embraces sweetheart and wives ESPOUSES
Finished and left OVER
Gain favour with a hot dish CURRY
He floated a company to avoid liquidation NOAH
In divorce town five had a meal together to patch things up RENOVATE
Is first and last a course at Oxford ISIS
Lent is brought forward ADVANCED
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Man going to the match who couldn't stop the salt pouring out WEDDINGGUEST
Mark breaks into church NOTICE
Note reciprocation about a point of principle TENET
Painstaking people enjoy this activity SADISM
Peruvians head East as a precaution INCASE
Police chase ends in the wood COPSE
Pot or tin basin broken CANNABIS
Prepare and serve a bird, none now left DODO
Relative finds Ned conscious after smash SECONDCOUSIN
Son in row sent back for further examination RESIT
The rear squad ordered to base HEADQUARTERS
The ultimate competitor FINALIST
They have their teeth on edge RATCHETS
Villain putting squeeze on the leader THUG
What scores of young people are in? TWENTIES
Where a marathon man eventually makes his name? INTHELONGRUN