The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 26,827 - Mar 30 2012

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Clues Answers
A horse may be second -- rotten SADDLED
A soberness not usually found in ladies BARONESSES
Bird's merit being expressed audibly ERNE
Books packaged together in vehicle OMNIBUS
Chemical in a shapeless mass not soft ALUM
Clones are, come what may ALLTHESAME
Contend that's not right, making complaint AGUE
Core group of students tackling tricky clue NUCLEUS
Criticism when one gets cut shaving? FLAK
Damage makes building material fade badly on top DEFACEMENT
Dejected, being deprived of whisky? SPIRITLESS
Desire shown by one bather, primarily to get into pool LIBIDO
Drinks -- any number needed in the mines PINTS
Friends about to produce a hit SLAP
Frigid upper-class girl with little money once GELID
German boy certainly not a Bunter type DIETER
Clues Answers
Hoarding pounds, misers unlikely to be such? SMILERS
In which someone may be out of his or her class? PLAYGROUND
Judge a script brought in by boy SAMSON
Leave old city in South America QUITO
Mist somewhere in Middlesex, we hear HAZE
One who has lost all his cash simply can't get over it! TOLLBRIDGE
Place in Surrey could be complete with two sovereigns DORKING
Sack that's left inside bar AXLE
Senior schoolgirl gets a bit twisted, becoming model PERFECT
Sort of very clever chap? Not I GENUS
South-east Asians, dreadful maniacs imprisoning person CAMBODIANS
Split wood brought back and lit finally RIFT
That is buried in plot further away BEYOND
The tiniest bit gives a fashion designer hesitation QUANTUM
What may give cover to one who is lying BEDDING
Works at Llantrisant maybe and shows a profit MAKESMONEY