The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 23,649 - Jan 25 2002

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A manual worker having to take a train's quite wrong ARTISAN
A woman with backbone in some agency MACHINERY
Accommodated, however one regards it PUTUP
An instrument to be played quietly PIANO
Armaments any power may provide WEAPONRY
Censure the fool for entering a disreputable place DISAPPROVE
Check arranged, so went all to pieces STONEWALL
Cost met out of cash, as stated EXPENSE
Direction to strike - direction which is obscure ECLIPSE
Few show support VINDICATE
Film about trade not properly shared out MISDEALT
Finding a way to call back that's quite touching PATHETIC
Foodstuffs prepared in turn set out NUTRIENTS
Getting a badly-behaved youngster to the brink is first IMPRIMIS
Grow faint, so get a medico round before work DROOP
He may well expect to face entrance charges TRESPASSER
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Mad Gerda, a character in King Lear EDGAR
Many refuse to speed DASH
Minister a little beast cut short RABBI
Mint coinage bearing the queen's head? PENNYROYAL
Notice a blemish SPOT
Plainer form of confectionery PRALINE
Porter of above-average weight STOUT
Put in note about live bird GREBE
Regret about unvarying income REVENUE
Repeat some of the Chopin Preludes ECHO
Sound water supply WELL
The A possibly ARTICLE
The dog snapped at small children BITCH
The look a copper managed in absence of conflict APPEARANCE
The scholar's mathematical problems are to be returned ERASMUS
Transport and then ditch a painter VANDYKE