The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,370 - May 18 2004

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Clues Answers
A degree of excitement fellow will always get on sports field FEVERPITCH
A surprise may so daunt ASTOUND
Ancient city some French first lay waste DESTROY
Awful kids - crazy right through! BRATS
Barren patch for an old prime minister? HEATH
Bishopric a knight may try to get SEEK
Boots loose women - then gets going! KICKSTARTS
Compares rights around Kampuchea LIKENS
Degrees to which darts go in a different direction Gradations
Earthly inheritors with case of 17 appear quietly MEEKLY
Express irritation when pots are chucked back SNAP
Gift is here, having been despatched earlier PRESENT
He has more than one rib POLYGAMIST
His decimal system sounds a bit wet! DEWEY
In peril of death - getting furious ENDANGERED
It's almost a sin in Ireland! ERIN
Clues Answers
Look about and gain knowledge LORE
One's counterpart at work on the river OPPO
Place out an extraordinary melon variety CANTALOUPE
Pops out through small doors? HATCHES
Preminger going to and fro at the start OTTO
Punished mainly by the captain KEELHAULED
Shoes made of wood with square heel SANDALS
Signs of grief after one splits TEARS
Song about daughter as woman LADY
Stated rationale of former stance EXPOSITION
The beginning of a book GENESIS
Told to peel the fruit PEAR
Tread hard, difficult thin line THREAD
Tropical locality that's potentially explosive HOTSPOT
Two-wheeler destroyed by 100 lice BICYCLE
Wagon in which very ordinary passengers frolic CAVORT