The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,491 - Oct 6 2004

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A burning desire? PYROMANIA
About time to stop eating? Give me a break! RELENT
Carafe of French nectar's drunk DECANTER
Democrat - one with any constituents is bland ANODYNE
Drugged on Ecstasy then puff's passed on STONEDEAD
Elation finding first bud in flower EUPHORBIA
First and second, for example, sound in exams ORDINALS
Gave out, perhaps, after bad stroke UMPIRED
His job's on the line! TIGHTROPEWALKER
Left, then a left to find the entrance PORTAL
Little alternative on board ship for sailors SALTS
Old sovereign found in locked wardrobe EDWARD
Old Spice Girl with three hits, say GERIATRIC
Panda car crushed in pound BEARCAT
Player holding ace is higher GAMIER
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Popular sauce for duck on stove ORANGE
Posh album pinched by guy - guilty CULPABLE
Prospect for gold in a canal PANORAMA
Provided piano on German song PLIED
Rub down a nail with edge of file ABRADE
Slow movement from a soldier in trouble ADAGIO
Soldiers trailing Iraqi leader in desert gear RAIMENT
Taking stock? RUSTLING
Tart stripping top to bottom shows off TRUMPETS
The chief element in the sound of a piano? KEYSTONE
The pit-a-pat, poetically, of tiny feet? IAMBIC
Thumping round mass - useless clot! Thrombus
Where you'll find pole position at the back! GONDOLA
Wind's changing - trim sail I missed MISTRAL