The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,133 - May 12 2002

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A sign outside says 'Battle-axe' VIRAGO
About to have a drink with the purveyor of the tidings REPORTER
An outsider, which is less easily explainable STRANGER
Braces oneself when the bad weather's back STEELS
Bringing back sophisticated comedy, takes ages about it SATIRE
Couturier, in a frenzy, resigned DESIGNER
Cry from the little gander PEEP
D... nerve, moving to somewhere in America DENVER
Edits the first and last parts, taking me through them EMENDS
Foreign money does make an impression MARK
Goes on and on boringly about layabouts? DRONES
Got an aerial view of the outmoded port PASSEDOVER
It's for rubbish, miss SKIP
Making jam from scratch SCRAPE
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Only half-read: skip, being careless REMISS
Positively crowing? COCKSURE
Refer to the source of beef in turn as 'foreign' EXOTIC
Refrain from including the English ancestor FOREBEAR
Sauce that tastes quite different with pepper MINT
Served as a car shelter when made smaller DIMINISHED
Slowly covering a rather unsightly building LEANTO
Steely-eyed, try to provoke one NEEDLE
Stretch out with elegant motion to catch the ball ELONGATE
Strike one a bit as careless SLAPDASH
The four playing about create a to-do furore
The one tied at the wedding? LOVERSKNOT
Tots allowed to swim in a pond uncontrolled? Go on! DONTSTOP
When the weather's good for a while, air ONEFINEDAY