The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 26,946 - Aug 16 2012

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'Smooth Criminal' about one's point of no return RUBICON
A box with domestic sweetener ASPARTAME
Ass perhaps, Shakespearean character BOTTOM
Cold's terrible gripping senior citizen OLDSTER
Current, cool or hot FASHIONABLE
Demanding America supports old foreign leader ONEROUS
Fantastic woman's plump for artist ELECTRA
Finish cooking meat in iron container FLAMBE
For refrigeration, element often needed initially FREON
Hard to embrace alien deviation DETOUR
He is one, and I too! ELEMENT
He may tramp alone, endlessly going around PATROLMAN
Help up in rave full of ecstasy? RADIANT
Issue raised on front of Sunday paper TIMES
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Kill almost everybody showing guts OFFAL
Left European peninsula for African country LIBERIA
Make stink up and fib about Government OBLIGE
Military comrades fear missing a redeployment ARMEDFORCES
Publicity likely over Queen arranger ADAPTER
Sale of uranium in warfare AUCTION
See letter reproduced in daily newspapers once here FLEETSTREET
Ship's crew with fish for warm hold? HANDSHAKE
Side following a Labour leader LATERAL
Sits on horse, sired unnaturally RIDES
Teaches education provided, say, by school head EDIFIES
The compiler's connected to a certain degree MEASURE
Trespass as sin, a term including murder ASSASSINATE
US President to resolve reforms ROOSEVELT