The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 26,061 - Oct 16 2009

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Clues Answers
A plant in truth! HONESTY
After drink artist has little yen for paint PORTRAY
Anatolia is confused with Romania ASIAMINOR
Attack taking minutes, moving west SETON
Bitchy sort of person, but not an incisive type BACKBITER
Exclusion area -- in which spiders have been 100% efficient? NOFLYZONE
Hull, with English poetry's ultimate poet SHELLEY
Keen to have gym in the basement CRYPT
Like a racehorse last in The Oaks -- rotten! SADDLED
Like some weather forecasts, look -- no good when going over mountains! LONGRANGE
Lists of American soldiers at the front MENUS
London area's leader embraces a politician, good man? HAMPSTEAD
Makes boxes for drug containment CREATES
Matrimonial lapsus unfortunately stifles love SPOUSAL
Member of family would make splendid secretary GRANDPA
Negotiators faced with ruin -- they're shaken MARACAS
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Part of the diocese yearned for change DEANERY
Pick out various bits from cinders DISCERN
Plants contributing to atmospheric activity CACTI
Protein book now available at the bookshop? ALBUMIN
Ray may be sought in this room SUNLOUNGE
Respecting neighbour possessing nothing ABOUT
Singer's corny stuff enthralling silly mob BOBMARLEY
Stops talking about bashes at Oxford? CLAMSUP
Stupid person beginning to cry is buried in sand DUNCE
Superior research establishment in the French part of Switzerland LUCERNE
Toy, not the first to be put in sack RIFLE
Travel a great distance, covering a hundred and one homes DOMICILES
Unstable baby with aim to get round edge of table TOTTERY
Vehicle doctor keeps at home, one vehicle not right MINICAB
Wise men having no time for one wanting to hold the line MAGINOT
Wrinkle on new material LINEN