The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 25,492 - Dec 20 2007

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Calling leg ball in play? LABELLING
Democracy is about the people REPUBLIC
Do nothing, say, about a generation without heart STAGNATE
Drill for dubious race tips PRACTISE
Effect renovations after destructive brush-fire REFURBISH
Fascinated by alternative sleeping accommodation given to sailors ABSORBED
Female carrying a lump of wood for lighting, for example HALOGEN
Happen only cowards could understand reasons at first! OCCUR
Herald in trouble for being uncompromising HARDLINE
How might one get winning hands? MANICURE
Intercede, seeing back trouble is beginning to ease LIAISE
Mediaeval banquet might offer corporate growth MIDDLEAGESPREAD
Most peculiar, seeing just one SINGULAR
Name a hand weapon that fires NAPALM
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New first for one who writes NOVELIST
New publication about contentious point REISSUE
No duty for cab to drop one without charge TAXFREE
One half-day in knockout dress! KIMONO
Pal up with bachelor - terribly refined! BEFRIEND
Quartet said to have made a prediction? FORETOLD
Regrettably went back to the motorway for some sausage SALAMI
Spring cleaned? Congratulations! WELLDONE
The perfect shoe for cattle crossing? OXFORD
The quality of a bore? CALIBRE
These lights are, we hear, found in distress sales LASERS
Veal? Do it perhaps as a joint DOVETAIL
What a priest might wear for bed and stay uncovered? COTTA