The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,677 - Feb 3 2013

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A baker's first loaf getting burnt ABLAZE
Attack in force, endlessly holding me up POLEMIC
Certainly not game bird CHICKEN
Check on quality of a small state ASSAY
City once in second, then first division? SPARTA
Concerned with signs, as Van Gogh became? SEMIOTIC
Disease cut by exactly 50 per cent in one area, part of Europe IBERIA
Exercised short time, then showered TRAINED
Faithful convert cannot, without saint CONSTANT
Fights as club finishes off last football game, perhaps BATTLES
Good opportunity for stable employee GROOM
Greatly amuse with line in statement of opinion SLAY
Horse, as last resort, stood on predator STALLION
Impartial in case? That's an aim OBJECTIVE
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Is it appropriate for the Queen to take on? SHOULDER
Like parts that could be oral, in fact FRACTIONAL
No publicity in Central American country for annual award NOBELPRIZE
Person who analyses contract SHRINK
Pinafore, for example, added after undergarment for composer BRAHMS
Reason for believing in genies, possibly SEEING
Relation devouring mother's Mexican food TAMALE
Shrewdness of top don finally taking in university ACUMEN
Somehow get Pat and Jock to eat entire vegetable dish JACKETPOTATO
Sport or game, originally as broadcast on radio GOLF
Sport that involves bats, net, and line TABLETENNIS
Wretched term without kind old master REMBRANDT
You may take less than a minute for each child SECONDPERSON