The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 23,831 - Aug 26 2002

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A key player, perhaps, from his score PIANIST
Agrees to be transported in a ship ASSENTS
Answer the medium hopes to get? Spiritedreply
Apes sobbing wildly GIBBONS
Building society deposit? ANTHILL
Certainly confident WITHOUTADOUBT
Direction for making a machine part BEARING
Discard caricature TAKEOFF
Eye-catching gadget HOOK
Frank on horseback going over battle zone UPFRONT
He changes colour - sounds dreadful DYER
His influence may make Rose change her name EROS
I find reformed smoker irritating IRKSOME
It offers guidance to drivers STEERINGWHEEL
Keeps quiet, like a sensible car-driver does BELTSUP
Made a record, going after a second hit SLOGGED
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One is not openly menaced by them VEILEDTHREATS
Pen a note making a complaint STYE
Quiet time for a bell-boy PAGE
Reserve space for cargo HOLD
Rings about turning up for work OPUS
Six look back on a big fiddle VIOL
South American custom-built banger SAUSAGE
Start with nothing in the kitty FOUND
The boy turned to me for reward MEDAL
They have posts out in Lagos GOALS
They reel up and down in play YOYOS
Tried writing to the editor ESSAYED
Understood it's filed under 'G' GRASPED
Very big chap who went down to a stone GOLIATH
Vessel that makes way for others in cold weather ICEBOAT
What one may do with a stipend perhaps! Spendit