The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 26,986 - Oct 2 2012

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Air needs to be recycled where passenger sits NEARSIDE
Anchor retaining unusually fine balance KNIFEEDGE
At home with dishonest office-holder INCUMBENT
Broadcast influenced kid SUEDE
Claimant's ugly pet PLAINTIFF
Concept records for dreamers IDEALISTS
Cute plainclothes officer in country attire TWEEDS
Drain curacao bottles to suffer INCUR
Excuse message before starting PRETEXT
Favour for each grasping judge PREFER
Fear entry to dean's study DREAD
Fellow is not commonly liable to lose consciousness FAINT
Femme fatale needs time before perm sets in new style TEMPTRESS
Giant in fairy story WHOPPER
Gloomy place a wretched louse is held in silence MAUSOLEUM
Good German car? Spanish designer! GAUDI
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In retirement boxer is the opposite of romantic REALIST
Job to admit one put forward POSIT
Lost for words with dire Spurs thrashed SURPRISED
Magnificent woods run wild WONDROUS
No longer fashionable to scrape through finals with poor grade PASSE
One who's close but pullin' back NIGGARD
Penelope in 'Some Like It Hot'? KEITH
Ready for expedition Livingstone finally cracked EQUIPPED
Squeaky clean? UNOILED
Stock ingredient of Rambo -- hard rather than right, and outwardly naive HAMBONE
Support overwhelming single trailblazer PIONEER
Union firm about wearing khaki or similar INUNIFORM
Wet blanket getting soggier DAMPER
Where sleeper may find overnight accommodation EARLOBE
Where waiter might be found? ANTEROOM
Whispering walls of ch�teau? MURMUR