The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,610 - Dec 14 2017

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American writer close to Walt Whitman? POET
Cold and idle hanging around small corridor CLOISTER
Dated being in severe trouble RETRO
Don't leer horribly, it's suggestive REDOLENT
Donations following ends of priest's hymns PSALMS
Fantastic bird returns calls for drinks CORDIALS
Fish settle around top of ice PLAICE
Grass due to face time trapping bloke INFORMANT
Illegal activity, in the main PIRACY
Individuals doing little except remain sedentary initially IDLERS
Introduction is formal meeting the Queen PRIMER
Iron outside of tie for party FETE
King nearly takes unoccupied pieces KNIGHTS
King, nearly everybody scoffed about King ALFRED
Like former US President missing old state ALABAMA
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Look, part of leg limps excessively GLIMPSE
Obstinacy recanting sin about embracing sweetheart INTRANSIGENCE
One maturing at manoeuvres, revealing logic ARGUMENTATION
Practically gone with inert vaporised gas NITROGEN
Presenters like to accept new job cut ANCHORS
Pub encounters ordeal regularly finding keg BARREL
Rakish, the Parisian stifling cry of pain LOUCHE
Repeated sex considered to include love finally ITERATED
Spread betting odds before final? SPLATTER
Tapers point on pointed missiles NARROWS
Teacher's expression of disapproval over arithmetic, perhaps TUTOR
The man's agitation seeing Jennifer Lopez, for example HISPANIC
The same pattern, retaining knot (hitch) applied evenly IDENTICAL
Time is pressing? EVENING
Unit in action, late DEPARTED