The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 26,904 - Jun 28 2012

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A Pole's half-mile champion APOSTLE
Backbone and intestines GUTS
Biased like William Hague, say, and anything but black and white SKEWBALD
Blimey! Got up around four and eating away CORROSIVE
Bon vivant Mafia boss in armed hold-up HEDONIST
Bring to light East wanting America's impartiality DISINTEREST
Clapton first to last a lyricist RICE
Complicated rectal op a beauty CLEOPATRA
Content to show lethal young predator OWLET
Decrease tatty edges on church's pair of pictures DIPTYCH
Fellow Nationalist replacing Liberal in Northern Ireland -- joker! FUNSTER
Good rule to start with: go gently with lovemaking in cafe GREASYSPOON
Incomplete design on metal in blue SKETCHY
Intermittently flaunt gold front tooth FANG
It could be box on top of table blocking slender source of illumination STREETLIGHT
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Last vestiges of tornado: warm drizzle and rain forecast OMEN
Lies in wait wanting first of kids' pets SULKS
No one's in the 'ouse? That's disgusting NOISOME
No power without a peerage NOBILITY
Odd start and finish to ballerina's dance RUMBA
Ominous review of rent and heating THREATENING
One's advance to embrace sailor left anchored IMMOVABLE
Rumbling initially in stomach anticipating rice cooked in spice TURMERIC
Sample American beer with this? TASTEBUD
Something to hold one's gaze in revival of 'Uncle Vanya'? NAVEL
Taps skill to make barrow HANDCART
Taxman getting it in angry tirade is a nuisance IRRITANT
The old hard core work for annual publication YEARBOOK
Weird to dig up end of school yard UNEARTHLY
Wine's bouquet and catch of the day making something worth tucking into NOSEBAG