The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 27,228 - Jul 12 2013

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A bishop captured by member of indigenous tribe? That'll make a story NARRATIVE
A civil rector sadly becoming too judgmental OVERCRITICAL
A little creature, one day buried, to become a fossil AMMONITE
Army needs something to give uplift, having lost heart HOST
Army unit's American soldier joining this person in charge REGIMENTAL
Civility depleted at the core in business community CITY
Comment when singer Billy J. gets upset? REMARK
Copper is at home and wife's finishing cooking CUISINE
Drunk diner, one moving quickly around, becoming more affectionate? FRIENDLIER
Feast is meagre -- Lent possibly? REGALEMENT
Get rid of French author, tearing page right out OUST
Goes on making money from enterprise PROCEEDS
Important? Not leader getting pretty old EIGHTY
It's alive, moving! Get going! VITALISE
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Kid eating 'uge pile that is on the meal table? TEAPOT
Make absolute assertions as scoundrel -- friend is being taken in DOGMATISE
Monk's rosary component, we hear BEDE
Performer in the belfry -- guest brought in by team? RINGER
Piece of cloth worker presented to King and Queen first HANDKERCHIEF
Rachel's sister in meadow lying on top of hay LEAH
Short recreational activity organised? See it at Highland Games SPORRAN
Socialist finding heavenly types wrong-headed ENGELS
Some of our ideas for a jaunt? RIDE
Stealing from employer? Naughty to grin about that TROUSERING
Suffered financially and was uncomfortable in Oxford maybe FELTTHEPINCH
They will get at the truth -- i.e. secret told after torturing LIEDETECTORS
This person cried stupidly about love being 'ordinary' MEDIOCRE
Very keen to get muck reduced on top of house GUNGHO