The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,465 - Sep 6 2004

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A little arch containing a lamp SLIGHTLY
A number expelled are downcast DEJECTED
A second mowing around at the farm AFTERMATH
A variety still to be discovered, we hear SORT
Accept Seamus is upset ASSUME
Action man LITIGANT
As used by ancient sign writers? HIEROGLYPH
Bird gives one a shock after dark NIGHTJAR
Catch the boss in a boiled shirt? COLLARSTUD
Contestants tied in this event - for Manx people? THREELEGGEDRACE
Current assertion of private secretary status AMPS
Equestrian ability acquired by large majority SAFESEAT
Female impersonator to draw a court card DRAGQUEEN
Final notice? OBITUARY
Has a cigarette and looks happier LIGHTSUP
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Head of choir soon becomes a priest CANON
How to overcome the fires of thirst QUENCH
Mark closely and upset the club three-quarters NOTABENE
Not easy to grasp by sailors on land ABSTRACT
One always remembers the penal settlement ELEPHANT
Partisan assembly produces a candidate ASPIRANT
Row about a horse, perhaps, friend of Pooh TIGGER
She's concealed by a fag at Harrow AGATHA
The appropriate jug for punch? TOBY
They are outnumbered in play DICE
Transport moving about America AUTOBUS
Under pressure to return sweets DESSERTS
Wife having to pay her share DUTCH
With tea, say, China is abounding TEEMING