The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 27,018 - Nov 8 2012

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After drink around mid-afternoon, gets up and staggers SURPRISES
Airmen flying in aerobatics initially showing fibre RAFFIA
Animal back in flat urban surroundings BRUTAL
Badly off being run down on street STRAPPED
Bring out criminal to be heard? ELICIT
Chain reaction's unstable end? Come off it! DOMINOEFFECT
Characters from literature LETTERS
Drunk compiler's admitted boob MERRY
Fat Elvis performed for party FESTIVAL
Girl and small fellows say, dress up DISGUISE
Gloom somehow spread around Italy DESPAIR
Group with grand ringing sound CLANG
Incumbent Obama to lose power? RESIDENT
Leader of commercial bank's honest CLEAN
Mugs almost offended judge ASSESSOR
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Novel girl covering routine, large and rude TACTLESS
On holiday, taking in New York regardless ANYWAY
One tries hanging over bed TESTER
Pet concerns over school head CARESS
Ply tense partygoers with Ecstasy TRAVERSE
Return of a New Age scene ARENA
Rodent following piper finally in childlike story NARRATIVE
Sabbath music fan sort of singing SCAT
Sensational redhead trouble in affair THRILLING
Sit keeping one's composure POISE
Spooks from Shakespeare's opening moving centre stage SECRETAGENTS
Stand for artist endlessly showing dexterity EASE
Sweet subsidy supporting female artist FRAGRANT
Tedium, being embraced by drunken nuisance ENNUI
Wise to accept Catholic anger for blasphemy SACRILEGE