The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 26,472 - Feb 10 2011

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Chaps entering US team in disguise for fun AMUSEMENT
Convinced to change ties if wearing blue SATISFIED
Criticized after hospital department gets caught ENTRAPPED
Daughter eats rotten fruit DATES
Dreadful pun our pal hated UNPOPULAR
Drug seller's cut cocaine hits me badly CHEMIST
Exemplars left out for plans IDEAS
Fish's a kipper SLEEPER
Giving the green light to what the landlord is doing? LETTING
Government admits deaths occurred here GALLOWS
I put rude spread around front of Telegraph -- evil TURPITUDE
I'm getting tea -- it's nuts for parrot IMITATE
Jockey gasping as horse's walking sideways PASSAGING
Lay a rug with regret, on reflection AMATEUR
Left area of church to pass into disuse LAPSE
Lesson on origins of Indus Civilization is outstanding CLASSIC
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Material somewhat flexible, last I checked ELASTIC
Messed up final -- galling PAINFUL
Methods of organising messy rubbish around street SYSTEMS
Officer's hat -- brown with a touch of indigo inside CAPTAIN
Outside one is flogged hard SOLID
Permitted to drop Latin? Disgusting! AWFUL
Raised floors -- in the Seventies they were fashionable PLATFORMS
Ruffle feathers initially next to small brook FRILL
Signs of green motorists? LPLATES
Soldier's uniform REGULAR
Some pieces on at a Schubertiade? SONATAS
Stakes a large sum of money after collecting spades POSTS
Starts to chew over coffee or alternative drink COCOA
Tenor touched by composer's passages TRAVELS
They read cruellest novel left out for Rector LECTURERS
Twister's confused Ron at party TORNADO