The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,585 - Apr 24 2011

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A partnership in firm producing parliamentary reports HANSARD
Above fifty, a learner driver's in top gear OVERALL
Apple computer's first operating system -- slow, incomplete COSTARD
Brought together, simplified for calculation ROUNDEDUP
Choice in polls when last becomes first SELECTION
Country people appearing in part of opera ARMENIA
Day after one's performance for sagacious songwriter SOLOMON
Duck lower for cover EIDERDOWN
Extract from nasty letter, in a way STYLE
Fictitious account to court ROMANCE
Flats etc. giving views of landscape SCENERY
Having reduced concentration, cut the target area THINNER
Hear about one record of events in book group TRILOGY
In fairness, they're just uncultivated areas DESERTS
In paper, notice rising showing divided state of Africa SUDAN
Instructed group of workers against Communist TUTORED
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It may forcefully open argument among Conservative lawyers CROWBAR
It may orbit regularly and arrive on time COMET
Lived in a hut, initially, with lots of running water AWASH
Metal that briefly divides parts of TV URANIUM
Music giving clubs, perhaps, a little energy SUITE
New upwardly mobile activity just beginning NASCENT
Observe what's wrong about maximum speed WATCH
One brought in to replace petitioner SUPPLIANT
Repeatedly street artist breaks rule -- that finally does it LASTSTRAW
Rescued, as it happens, king in action DELIVERED
Run TV series in irregular way, not regular RESERVIST
Scale of a natural disaster making prosperous period short RICHTER
Spirit not entirely captured in B flat for composer BEETHOVEN
Swallow one cocktail MARTINI
Triumphantly lift off the ground in research aircraft CHAIR
What poets typically do -- but not Keats and Yeats RHYME