The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 26,505 - Mar 21 2011

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A case for a seamstress ETUI
A sedentary occupation SITIN
Ancient city captured in erudite books LITERATURE
Cook sent in more soup MINESTRONE
Cut loss from one of the Plagues of Egypt LOCUSTS
Dismissed from brotherhood for not working OUTOFORDER
Excuses may mean the taxman ignores some charges EXEMPTS
Girl is to receive Religious Instruction IRIS
Go quietly, as a thief will do? STEAL
Head off from English county to see Italian region UMBRIA
Hothead raised the stake ANTE
Initially thought to come from outer space UFOS
Issue Oriental blend EMERGE
It is essential to return at six-fifty at the outside VITAL
It makes people unfit for high positions VERTIGO
Kissagram agency -- an insincere profession? LIPSERVICE
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Lent, for example, at an exorbitant rate FAST
Might be in or even out IRON
Migrant workers in transit, moving round the East ITINERANTS
New style navy MODERN
Prepare to fight for a rump steak that's rare TAKEUPARMS
Produce a work of art from scratch ETCH
Put a foot wrong and he may bail you out STUMPER
Record finish of race TAPE
Reductions in fare for conferences DIETS
Rising disgust REVOLT
Rose and made a speech without a single drink ORIGINATED
Salerno a French city? Could be! ORLEANS
Stagger to us and collapse ASTOUND
Ten on trial perhaps -- for being racialist? INTOLERANT
The German rock singer teaching the French one LORELEI
They're at liberty to be privileged citizens FREEMEN