The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 26,802 - Mar 1 2012

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A fresh flower is opening APERTURE
As many churches are braced to welcome priest STEEPLED
Blues' home game -- behind 0-10 OXBRIDGE
Composer's cold invitation to hitch-hiker CHOPIN
Ecstasy comes with doubly good -- no, grand -- hot drink EGGNOG
Elderly relative duty-bound to be wandering VAGRANT
Ex-serviceman's admitted aim to get thanks may cause feud VENDETTA
Gosh! Soprano melody could be one from 'The Pirates Of Penzance' CORSAIR
It's futile ignoring the odds to indulge a Conservative NUGATORY
Letters collected in this sample of epistolary art nicely reviewed INTRAY
Loan ordinary Tottenham player out -- that's brilliance SPLENDOUR
Make fun of a learner with deadpan coarse humour RIBALDRY
Moldovan capital is highly attractive for loner MISFIT
Old-fashioned accommodation for English troops under canvas TENEMENT
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One involved in conspiracy is high-flier PILOT
Painful excrescence is damn secure HANGNAIL
Place too much importance on bowlers' speed OVERRATE
Pleasant entertaining hour in recess NICHE
PR 'war' amounted to revamped 5 for instance PORTMANTEAUWORD
Punch-drunk maniac or legendary heavyweight? MARCIANO
Radical theatrical mother making way for son DRASTIC
Scene of coppers' beat before start of trouble PROSPECT
Scoff when private joke is overheard INGEST
Two versions of Flog It may be a pain in the neck WHIPLASH
Unexpected gem in a puzzle ENIGMA
Vulgar predilections absorbing the French TASTELESS
Which person, though, swaps house with wife? WHOEVER