The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,700 - Jul 14 2013

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Backed an aromatic product that's just coming out NASCENT
Being inclined to disallow ruler's financial activity? BANKING
Challenge over part of form I release to public DECLASSIFY
Check about second work of poet VERSIFICATION
Eastern European holding up what's exemplary SUPERB
Extra small page perused, in general WIDESPREAD
Gang was audibly triumphant CREW
Go from nine to five with 50 per cent less effort thus? ANTICLOCKWISE
Go-between one somehow has to admire MEDIATOR
Hero of Dickens novel editor distorted TWISTED
Managed to complete minutes in no particular order RANDOM
Marine organisms not turned over on board PLANKTON
Not quite as depressed, how one can perform SOLO
Old man's covering miles in vast plains PAMPAS
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One pair of partners -- religious, intelligent, and uplifting INSPIRATIONAL
Part of Ireland (see above) DOWN
Pay more attention, as doctor, to back RETREAT
Recited pieces of poetry, quite an achievement FEAT
Relating to community in that way, clubs I and others joined SOCIETAL
Savagery around a king that's not personally experienced VICARIOUSNESS
Secretly listen to Western pirate broadcast WIRETAP
Source of illumination to secure inside staircase FLASHLIGHT
Spraying can damage a rose -- nothing left AEROSOL
These sources of rumours enrage VIPs misrepresented GRAPEVINES
Thoughtful writers I have abridged PENSIVE
Travellers in company in vehicles going round area CARAVAN
Understood grief at home defeat to some extent FATHOMED
Unknown leading African country replaced by good leader in this one GAMBIA