The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 25,441 - Oct 22 2007

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A good mixer, maybe, but a trouble-maker AGITATOR
A nut-case? SKULL
A school loses business claim ALLEGE
Balance fish plates SCALES
Bed in new seed and provide an account DESCRIBE
Caught by traffic light at bend in the road CAMBER
Check demand for material DAMASK
Clue that's found in middle of drawer LEAD
Cook eggs to airmen's order SCRAMBLE
Departed principal needed to work in flowerbeds DEADHEAD
Don't lose that quiet shyness PRESERVE
Flag of Eire shortened IRIS
Go off with a list ROTA
Hands and feet, for example MEASURES
He takes orders to break the circle CLERIC
Helping a student is reasonable RATIONAL
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Is unusually hard on the outside, but edible RADISH
It does twice-daily turns at coastal resorts TIDE
Lear deranged and demoted EARL
Old Irish characters around Omagh OGHAM
Penetrate enemy defences in a major advance BREAKTHROUGH
Piece of furniture I'd put back to front DIVAN
Playboy has nothing to feel sorry about ROUE
Staunch support STEM
Strikers attempt to return BATS
Surrey town getting head start in a rough game EGHAM
Takes no short cuts, becomes successful Goesalongway
They hold an alternative view of things THEORY
They're Russian lettuce containers COSSACKS
This insect makes a chap sit up MANTIS
Unidentified object could be a clay pigeon FLYINGSAUCER
Used in a war of words? FIGHTINGTALK