The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,164 - Dec 15 2002

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'Get rid of the best man,' I interposed agitatedly ELIMINATE
'Keep,' as opposed to 'dish out' CONSERVE
'Try to avoid giving bad reviews,' I left out SWERVE
A jokey word for 'discipline'? PUNISH
Am boarding to take the helm of the vessel STEAMER
Bags of people who can give you diseases CARRIERS
Be caging the birds, which does perplex one BEMUSE
Being, myself, anti tail docking, planned to MEANT
Close, but not enough to be within your grasp THUNDERY
Concluded, when one went into the shade REASONED
Don't go without a pen STY
Either restrain or show your anger BRIDLE
Elevenses, though it's not quite eleven TEA
Game that incurs the odd exclamation of surprise RUMMY
Haggard put in the picture DRAWN
Intensify, once broken homes come into it CONDENSE
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Is in the lower end, being more sensible WISER
Loaded, there's a report BULLETIN
Make it impossible to get the key into the opening PRECLUDE
Maxim of the spectator? WATCHWORD
Ministerial office CURACY
Notice the hole, making a fuss ADO
One after another! PURSUER
One there's no danger of fish escaping from? SAFETYNET
Peer foolishly at, as you peered foolishly at before? REPEAT
Peter starts with land fit for ploughing - that's the story PARABLE
Say again going by ship is a way out EGRESS
She started the comeback of nudism FOUNDRESS
Such problems as Houdini had to deal with? KNOTTY
Suitable for a small flat APT
Terribly mean to one pretty little thing ANEMONE
Told us more about the great goal ENLARGED