The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 538 - Feb 11 2019

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A doctor tucked into the old lady's curry MADRAS
About to put away record CLOCKUP
Allowed to go topless – that's disgusting AWFUL
Ask someone's opinion about a European embassy CONSULATE
At a court, corrupt dictator AUTOCRAT
Briefly catch end of commentary in one's place of employment in major city NEWYORK
Cat, very fine, climbing to sit on the fence PUSSYFOOT
Dean, say, may get fish surrounded by boiled rice ICESKATER
Doubtful one acting so strangely AGNOSTIC
Down stuffed in it may be inappropriate INAPT
Endorses best baseball player BACKSTOP
Former litigant's apparent argument PLAINTIFF
Former president, old boy with a degree OBAMA
Free lager put out after a time ATLARGE
Friend, male, one in past AMIGO
Husband having tale about one in the past HISTORY
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Lures co-eds out across yard DECOYS
Male lover back in Sarasota, Romanian INAMORATO
Means of protection in English river, fast, swirling at the edges SAFETYNET
Move slowly in cold, bitterly cold, lake CRAWL
Not all of the people in ancient land THRACE
Prison reformer out of bed for breakfast, perhaps FRYUP
Republican enthralled by silly sketch DRAFT
Sailor, back out East, to cut and run ABSCOND
Sign us out, last of militia in tanks AQUARIA
Some clap in terrific playwright PINTER
Treated as canards – her prophecies were CASSANDRA
Type of party – ring mobile phone to get through OPENHOUSE
Underdeveloped, like an untended flower bed? WEEDY
Undetermined illness restricting Italian in service LITURGY
Whipped up, it is a rum dessert TIRAMISU
Withdraw with slight injury SCRATCH