The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,943 - Mar 18 2018

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Annual publication from chap filling a need? Not quite ALMANAC
Attacker in combat protected by former president FORWARD
Balance with skill in new launch RESTART
Believe chapter right, ready for publication CREDIT
Beset by scruffs, left Mediterranean city NAPLES
Carmen crazy about love � or some such story ROMANCE
Conflict between setters, say -- in which one may be shot down DOGFIGHT
Courts in European country releasing us ATRIA
Determined male will, having become crooked HELLBENT
Disciplines citizens SUBJECTS
Do it so male suffering cuts becomes poor DISMAL
Easy enough to grasp, like umbrella during shower? UNDERSTANDABLE
Elected ruler is protecting pound, creating suspicion INKLING
Garment of Frenchman or Englishwoman? JEANS
General holding large gun RIFLE
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I am going to mock about article, making you anxious ILLATEASE
Instruction for players in part of journey South, perhaps STAGEDIRECTION
It's not heavy metal that Americans have removed one from ALUMINIUM
Language in short clue I'd revised HINDI
Neat kind of knitwear for yacht TRIMARAN
Recluse is learner with fraction of basic education LONER
See bud attached to minute fruit tree DATEPALM
Shorten or cut rail that's tangled up CURTAIL
Slow students lack energy, to some extent SLACKEN
Small, spiteful, absent-minded and disorganised SCATTY
Succeeded in college course with marks for reading volumes GRADUATED
Top man on board is mad, mad, mad liar ADMIRAL
Understand and object, being very angry SEETHING
Unorthodox covers top of every country chart? NORTH
Variable standard on a gauge PARAMETER