The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,712 - Oct 6 2013

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A border that's said to require attention AHEM
Balance I established within political group PARITY
Bloomer as second doctor comes in immediately before operation SNOWDROP
Boundaries set up by male -- that's unfair to females SEXISM
Carefully planned operation catching ringleader for part of racket STRING
Close family wrapping son in fur SEALSKIN
Company custom to maintain an intimate in-house relationship COHABIT
Confused situation produced by strike on base BEDLAM
Good ensemble in dance performance, mainly in royal residence BALMORALCASTLE
Guitar piece that makes one experience anxiety FRET
In time, informer making things wrong in work ERRATA
Instrument that's dropped in red wine CLARET
Like Northern people as part of race, you might say LAPP
Loud singer including sequence of songs in high voice FALSETTO
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Love to talk back? That's fine OKAY
Maiden spoke and spoke, in barely audible way MUTTERED
Make a recovery without drug, in fact REALLY
Movement in no hurry to follow left-winger DOGTROT
New and unusual editor signed agreement NODDED
One century after another -- that'll make you feel better TONIC
One positive response, or more than one AYES
Preparing to fight with friend outside, in scary fashion ALARMINGLY
Put right about wrong I, perhaps, interpreted incorrectly MISAPPREHENDED
Report about mass or ceremony POMP
Unlike readers, the writer will perform repeatedly ILLITERATE
Unsociable type's side-splitting joke? LONER
Warm kind of fire that's a contradiction in terms? FRIENDLY
Weapon the old man has for response to challenge PASSWORD