The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,669 - Feb 22 2018

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Beauty shown by heartless girl French love GLAMOUR
Catching nothing with snooping around NOOSING
Compact cars brief condensed for cabinet members MINISTERS
Competitor in event ran tiredly ENTRANT
Concentrate more facing court EXTRACT
Country beginning to launch airline LIBERIA
Crew's seizing stern of pirate ship and holds POSSESSES
Eastern sculpture, perhaps, bird in clay EARTHEN
Fat detective assuming a position ADIPOSE
Fertiliser can's rising cost NITRATE
Flash last of Big Issue GLITTER
For each upset select man changing substitutes REPLACEMENTS
Freezing environment in wild for rare tiger REFRIGERATOR
Idiots rolling in, dancing twist NITWITS
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Initially earnest, agog, great enthusiasm rising EAGER
Interior's covering explosive fuses COHERES
Long drink contains very soft fruit PINEAPPLE
Method's restraining bad actor's interchanges RECIPROCATES
Old worked keeping in good heart, say ORGAN
One obsessively follows speech in sermon, half cut STALKER
One pays to purchase useless underwear article SUSPENDER
One posts squad leader on watch STICKER
Pieces of Cheddar are bitten eating this? RAREBIT
Pierced one's skin CUTIS
Queen on the up, meaning distribute record REGISTRATION
Return tennis stroke with assistance before love game DIABOLO
Slump includes credit squeeze SCRAG
Trouble filling hospital department's needs ENTAILS