The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 26,478 - Feb 17 2011

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A cracking job! CRYPTOGRAPHY
Actor Hines, tap dancing THESPIAN
Bird's short answer in union MERGANSER
Burn remains finally and turn to dust SMOULDER
Close charged up around end of crease NEAR
Credit one's doubled creating catastrophe CRISIS
Detective's left following caper DISPORT
Drug supplier with some speed accepting abuse PHARMACY
Embarrassed about growth getting dark SWARTHY
Front when American spooks chase foreign leader FASCIA
Fugitive fled, then is back in camp TRANSIENT
Gold fish kept in quiet gloomy place MAUSOLEUM
Harry's noble, good man inside PESTER
Has-been Labour leader rose unsteadily LOSER
Macbeth? A new title inside THANE
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Old Right, for example, concerned with state OREGON
Older offspring embracing a boy SEASONED
One tries duck taken from grill TASTER
Outfit in men's wear GARMENTS
Persuasion of French bird gripped by desire DENOMINATION
Quits from missus, never coming back EVENS
Regarding Church vessel from apse RECESS
Sort of bottle shown by gang in arrest SCREWTOP
Sort of fur's lavish on Queen OTTER
Sound of hooter round middle of shift NOISE
Study mime around Paris possibly APPRAISE
Tortilla always containing other starters TACO
Urge one obstinate animal, endlessly in bother STIMULATE
Vulgar bloke grabbing blonde's butt CHEAP
Wheezes with fastener packing cases PATIENTS