The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,633 - Mar 22 2005

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A very old railway gets gifts ALMS
Arrival of Scottish author, big noise coming in LANDING
Bias shown with President lacking charm ENCHANT
Busy person, given something to eat, grumbled BEEFED
Calm time when sun goes down for the poet EVEN
Cast-off stuff giving lake a brown colour LUMBER
Coach artist wanting to get in the money TRAIN
Daughter in union - but took time! DALLIED
Deadlock involving British chum at one's club? STABLEMATE
Don't go down for encounter COMEACROSS
Elder son - he ruined trousers LEDERHOSEN
Enthusiastic about some paint - oils, I think INTO
Filling in the cracks is little good - heavy defeat ensues GROUT
Hat almost ridiculous, ripped on the outside TRICORN
Hello, saints may be making an unwelcome noise! HISS
King's daughter coming round on old ass ONAGER
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Lords always needing attendant around PEERAGE
Man, maybe - and what Donne implied he wasn't ISLE
Monarchy discountenanced from what we hear THRONE
Nothing inferior in greeting ALLTHEBEST
Oriental knight appears at end of festival EASTERN
Part of machine making awful chatter RATCHET
River in which star is reflected AVON
Such are church weddings, one's smiled stupidly SOLEMNISED
The little boy I had is shy TIMID
The way of the idle rich? EASYSTREET
Trees replanted by Charles LARCHES
Unpleasant experiences near turbulent stream NIGHTMARES
Venetian bigwig? Someone not nice to English DOGE
What the elderly suffer from in our era ANNODOMINI
You aren't half grand! THOU
Young whelp, one learner - is that what he is? PUPIL