The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 23,757 - May 31 2002

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A light basket formed of metal strips CRESSET
A scoundrel promises to pay? That's unusual! CURIOUS
An antelope - sound healthy animal HARTEBEEST
Awful mumbler - a northern feller LUMBERMAN
Counts as a scriptural book NUMBERS
Dispute win for example GAINSAY
Dries hops a new way. Speak with great enthusiasm of it RHAPSODISE
Gambling device - a little one requiring a key TOTE
Getting bad news, so yell - such lack of fortitude! Yellowness
Having some inclination for nursing TENDING
Inferred a French nobleman should go into action DEDUCED
Inoffensive, without aspiration, though short of members ARMLESS
Landseer's resort when all at sea? CROWSNEST
Look up about practice available for a winger OUSEL
Many a top man with little hesitation gets a stand-in LOCUM
Mark the skinhead has personal transport SCAR
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No practical person wants a fancy table IDEALIST
One of the twins composing a piece of mediocre music REMUS
Preserve a lake or other stretch of water CANAL
Regular check into a city's administration SYSTEMATIC
Sarah is backing him SILAS
Some Amerinds quietly and stealthily advance CREEP
Surprise expressed at sources of drinking-water WELLWELL
Tasted power in conveyance over the snow SAMPLED
The basic necessity for a suit EVIDENCE
The old soldier is more earthy about sex-appeal CRUSADER
The story of a Greek character in the City EPIC
The well-organised Roman made notes MEMORANDA
Turn away from a green AVERT
Vehicle reversing in an enclosed space YARD
What people may do to put a stop to revolutions BRAKE
Works out manoeuvres EXERCISES