The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,669 - Dec 9 2012

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Authenticate a cut in pay, or no change NOTARISE
Before big game, initiate check for drugs, perhaps BLOODTEST
Berry, oddly, put in alcoholic drink BRANDY
Comprehend where setter's skill is shown around end of crossword INCLUDE
Container repeatedly broken in outskirts of Philadelphia PHIAL
Cruel person lives in depressed time SADIST
Demanding leave for player concealing dope EXIGENT
Despicable people introduced to new editor? Forget it! NEVERMIND
Destruction of empires, from which one may draw certain conclusions PREMISE
Developed into hard worker outside academic stream BECAME
Divided in the way shown below ASUNDER
Entertains in a way, with quartet of players around one WINES
Gallery section for engraver and artist VERANDA
Hamlet's problem, having sorted out vice inside head INDECISIVENESS
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Influence foolish person had over union leader in strike CLOUT
Interrogate as gaoler, extremely badly GRILL
Lack of importance within certain sign, if I cancel INSIGNIFICANCE
Part that extends over prow's possibly this BOWSPRIT
Person removing some nails, perhaps, from old vessel CLIPPER
Potential husbands with match in mind MENTALLY
Priest, generally, converted sons with force CONFESSOR
Primate and historian GIBBON
Rescues Las Vegas drunk SALVAGES
Runs low joints, and is persistently annoying RANKLES
Screening male in role of Lear, for example MASKING
Standard note covering disorderly interior CRITERION
These parts of newspaper are, in brief, central for dreadful lady reader ADVERTISEMENTS
Unfinished research I'm doing badly? Dons control it ORGANISEDCRIME