The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,759 - Aug 16 2005

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Arrest for street parking? Duck inside! STOP
Bachelor in practice for family TRIBAL
Bring back control by government REINSTATE
Cop in East Enders collars suspect OPINE
Drew from current account TIED
Hissing noise from river snake RASP
It's seen in discreet caption SUBTITLE
Look right taking wrinkle cosmetic EYELINER
Lumps of old potato surrounded by capers Protuberances
Mediocre president with a reshuffle PEDESTRIAN
Opposition's out of closet following obscurity SHADOWCABINET
Place with tea urn and star cook? RESTAURANT
Plod ambushes catching one with Ecstasy TRAIPSE
Press for fairy stories IMPLORE
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Pulling back trigger ends in recoil RETRACTION
Roughly apply a mixer to batter APPROXIMATELY
Sharp twilit exterior seen in old negative NATTY
She's relatively sympathetic AGONYAUNT
Slice spread in tea, almost TRANCHE
Snorkelled to the start of peat bog SWAMP
Song of praise for the Lord, say HYMN
Strangely lucid R.E.M.'s instrument DULCIMER
Superconductors? MAESTRI
Temper is not usually raised except initially INURE
Toss caber. Upend it holding length up in the air UNPREDICTABLE
Up-to-date fashion's navy MODERN
Working classes embracing left? It's a joke PLEASANTRY
Wrong union leader and socialist's crucified TORTURED