The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 26,039 - Aug 29 2013

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Bird to sing, missing note CHAT
Casual society set up in the country SYRIA
Cooks of now and yesteryear? CAPTAINS
Economist's suggestion for a cannibal's feast? FRIEDMAN
Enjoying fine weather? Something our readers probably won't be doing! TAKINGTHESUN
Exclusion of drunken sot with display of unacceptable bigotry OSTRACISM
Explorer beginning to suffer with cold, excessively SCOTT
Fine instrument dramatist uses AMATI
Fruit not looking so good, a third wasted UGLI
Guy of 7 in short-staffed group MANNERING
Heading west, curve around port ACCRA
High priest's casual greeting, unusual around church HIERARCH
Hollow bishop with a thing to be confessed? BASIN
It's not just the workers they look after APIARISTS
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Liberal request made by independent political theorist, once LASKI
Make a killing, maybe, as murderer keeping quiet CASHIN
Message from 7 undone by a plod, a graft with sun, gales, ice GREATGODTHISIS
Moving in the right direction, having several training sessions? ONCOURSE
Pest starting off fast, hard to catch APHID
Portions from the chippy? Lunch boxes no longer have them! CODPIECES
Question asked by someone comparing Christmas presents etc? ANDWHATHAVEYOU
Reliable but losing heart — is worker, in terms of self-image? SOIDISANT
Security person with hairy bits at the front of University Hospital LOCKSMITH
See 24 ANAWFULPLACE
See ad and buy product, finally to be cooked now? USEBYDATE
Sidney had curled up nice and warm, maybe HENDIADYS
Some holy stranger encountered in place on missionary journey LYSTRA
Therapy that could come from a herb REHAB