The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 26,785 - Feb 10 2012

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Clues Answers
A trick when recipe's included fruit we can't eat ACORN
American jerk starts to enrage Englishmen YANKEE
Animal books better than all others one's given stars BESTIARIES
Article stuck in bank of river down below LETHEAN
Artist making plea getting awful rot accepted PORTRAYER
Back English author STERNE
Consistently successful journalist is well-educated INFORMED
Country wants tax to come down SCOTLAND
Eager to express grief KEEN
Go away and ask somebody BEGONE
Hidden stem by a river ARCANE
Illustration in a new church includes saint INSTANCE
Maybe mother or father given periodic payment PARENT
Mum put in item of furniture that may get broken TAMABLE
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One could make leap to edge of pond -- after transformation! TADPOLE
Opposing lines revealed in talk CONVERSE
Outburst of colossal volume SALVO
Place that makes sense by the sound of it SITE
Puts off performance in East Anglian town DISCONCERTS
Secluded Conservative girl meets the heartless revolutionary CLOISTERED
Something sung in film when the enemy walks past? ASTIMEGOESBY
Spiteful about husband and inclined to gossip CHATTY
Start eating, sit around in proper positions INSTIGATE
Sterling Cafe badly organised with DIY facility? SELFCATERING
Symbol of victory Parliament put back in old city TROPHY
Very light one of them may be FLARES
You can't trust an agent to be honest giving answers REPLIES