The Telegraph – Cryptic – Mar 5 2018

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Clues	Answers
A news journalist under contract regularly added text	ANNOTATED
Abuse something that cheers patient?	ILLTREAT
Bring to mind agreement accepted by the First Lady	EVOKE
Coffee ultimately follows wrong dessert	TORTE
Country reportedly took action on article	SUDAN
Creative person reduced stock	INVENTOR
Do detective’s business	DISCO
Dull terror with Republican replacing last Democrat	DREAR
Final passage from programmer, reportedly	CODA
Genuine backing over offer to sell plant	LAVENDER
Ivan set out to find locals	NATIVES
Landlord with brain printed paper	LETTERHEAD
Lawrence has nameless ships	DHOWS
Look up and study antique	OLDEN
Modern Christmas?	PRESENTDAY
Nervous on the border?	EDGY

Clues	Answers
Night out perhaps with daughter, 25	DATED
Offensive lout hangs about	ONSLAUGHT
One defends Murray’s penultimate game point	APOLOGIST
One’s more uncertain on this ground	SHAKIER
Place for spectators to show off	GRANDSTAND
Quiet auntie fabricated what’s seen in bed?	PETUNIA
Rubbish close to house, ‘Two Trees’	EYEWASH
Rude about Verrocchio’s first bust	INSOLVENT
Run section of haberdashery	DASH
Spotted hack, maybe, playing blinder	BRINDLE
Stopped reading mystery	CLOSEDBOOK
Such as John Lennon display fit of temper in review	AIRPORTS
Very good prices for those from Penzance?	PIRATES
Vow to meet large star	IDOL
Watch old boy produce an ace?	OBSERVE
When students can be seen rattling tins, making music	RAGTIME