The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 26,493 - Mar 7 2011

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'Dog gets bit' -- final news item TAILPIECE
A mass rising in Indian state ASSAM
A measure of a pickpocket's credit DIPSTICK
After cover-up, a politician is shilly-shallying DILATORY
Balance to settle around mid-January RESIDUE
Bizarre sort of route OUTRE
Darts and quivers of the regular kind STANDARD
Difficulty in hearing TRIAL
Disease possibly spread by water SEASIDE
Gunners return to lines with weapons ARROWS
He remains in the running for a long time STAYER
Hemp is used in making this jacket REEFER
Infers total used is incorrect ALLUDES
Introduced new dietitian INITIATED
It's risky going out on this shoot LIMB
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Live up to a wicked description EVIL
Lose one's grip and take no further action DROPTHECASE
Planning finally approved -- delighted! GRATIFIED
Plans to move aside IDEAS
Public school, we hear, is absorbed in the system EATEN
Ring a poor actor up somewhere in America OMAHA
Riverside plant? WATERMILL
Sally in deep trouble when turned out EQUIPPED
Sirius makes shadows on pitch DOGSTAR
Strange virus one may pick up on holiday SOUVENIR
They hear and sum up all the accounts AUDITORS
Trust to chance, as a busy artist will do DRAWLOTS
Vagrants making racket in back street TRAMPS
Value a quiet expression of approval APPRAISE
What missionaries aim to do? It's not true MAKEBELIEVE