The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 26,742 - Dec 22 2011

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A number pulling together? EIGHT
A sauce from sweetheart chasing two sailors TARTARE
Advance over in push for glory SPLENDOUR
Ancient Greek, officially recognised area initially AGORA
Bad smell after spot medication one imagines PLACEBO
Brain possibly covered by major ganglia ORGAN
Burning is acute with ring exploding Cauterising
Caribou were predominant here, reportedly REINDEER
City sleeps around lunchtime, empty NAPLES
Crowbar perhaps is put into action IMPLEMENT
Element of Japanese comics seen abroad MANGANESE
Fiddle with gong for the audience MEDDLE
Find disgusting flab, horrendous, admitted ABHOR
Governs, yet somehow holds one dominion Sovereignty
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Joined and served in force, losing heart SOLDERED
Legacy of Queen in beat generation HERITAGE
Mass gathering? PRAYERMEETING
Mates before midpoint of chess contest OPPOSE
Old lady eager to be seen in buff NANKEEN
Painter maybe hurried to get sanded RASPED
Pale when on top of bird ASHEN
Pious man punished and flagellated STRAPPED
Rope's dead wrong for criminal DESPERADO
Scandals, many I fancy, in banking centre CAYMANISLANDS
Sea creature's elegance beneath river, right? PORPOISE
Shoots flock or piece of clay POTSHERD
Soon respecting left Opposition leader in England shortly ERELONG
Try for example by English squad leader ESSAY