The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 26,547 - May 9 2011

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Administer a beating -- at Westminster? WHIP
Affected types from the Paris model agency POSEURS
Choose one mother -- the best! OPTIMA
Church of Scotland KIRK
Cleric angered about being screened RIDDLED
Crispbread put out for sea creature SPIDERCRAB
Fight a spell of illness BOUT
Hotshot taking authority over Parliament? POWERHOUSE
In a UK city near a river TYNE
Inform against a place of business SHOP
It may be buttonholed or rebuked ORCHID
It's natural for hotel to have tea break INNATE
Key worker in preparations for a musical concert PIANOTUNER
Love sent by e-mail? ATTACHMENT
Make progress by crawling, perhaps SWIM
Man devoured by a lion, perhaps -- a circus performer ACROBAT
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Misguided love is pity, really POSITIVELY
One who believes in British industry HINDU
Pay attention or get warning of dismissal TAKENOTICE
Plainly distressed, but retains composure INTEARS
Plant part is said to be regenerated ASPIDISTRA
Point to a pound of fish SQUID
Relation is given article that's soiled UNCLEAN
School principal to order a hearing aid HEADSET
Settle without recourse to law SQUAT
Sharing out a bit of parsley, perhaps GARNISH
Shrink from any last resolution ANALYST
Surgeon's paper knife? LANCET
The Irish Bill? GARDA
Turn on physician, one likely to misrepresent account SPINDOCTOR
Turned over stuff left over from wine-making MARC
We are disheartened, or used to be WERE