The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 26,835 - Apr 9 2012

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Clues Answers
A grizzly infant? BEARCUB
A host of local supporters PUBLICAN
A number finished the port DOVER
Accepts challenges TAKESON
Be hesitant, empty and sick at heart VACILLATE
Billy's mates who are good with children? NANNIES
Breaks in knee-length trousers, we hear BREACHES
Converted soul comes to face lions here? COLOSSEUM
Cycles along quiet winding dales PEDALS
Desist from mounting watch? REMIT
Efficient island uprising ABLE
Errors in field may cause defeats OVERTHROWS
Gather in great numbers for a service AMASS
Having gone off thoroughly confused ADDLED
Here come dots, dashed! THEMORSECODE
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Heroic record set by Olympic finalists EPIC
Insufficient money for cake SHORTBREAD
Is covered in bread crumbs and cooked BRAISED
It enabled Queen Victoria to stick to her post PENNYBLACK
Lawyers open with argument that carries weight BARROW
Mother angled craftily for a place at Oxford MAGDALEN
Number taking turn at party game LUDO
Offer support to hospital areas in reverse order BACKWARDS
Saddle and take horse about midnight RIDGE
So good nobody will play you? MATCHLESS
Teasing pin-up in circulation lacks taste UNAPPETISING
The best player is a defender CHAMPION
The single boy in a family is very much a favourite ODDSON
Turkish baths that flout union regulations? SWEATSHOPS
Wine that sparkles when it rises ASTI