The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,381 - May 27 2007

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As loaves go, this one's a gem! BAGUETTE
At a fraction the speed of, is very poor THIRDRATE
Banter train passengers go in for? RAILLERY
Breaking the news about a party one is giving ENDOWS
Careful when accepting it as a donation CHARITY
Caution displayed by captive animals? CAGINESS
Fire ball shown in a photograph SHOOT
Get up with difficulty, holding a bouquet PRAISE
Girl having a silly wager about a Venetian import GLASSWARE
Going back again through, I left out 'productive' FERTILE
I'll have a beer, anyhow. A good old stand-by RELIABLE
In the clue for 'newt', made a mistake WENTWRONG
Is off, yet works GOES
Mean to mend a badly torn cover: it's decorative ORNAMENT
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Moderate, at the time, the fifteenth clue TONEDOWN
Neither gets in the way of having a snifter SNORT
Not as worried when it is held up in the post STATION
Now, a word from the presenter HERE
Reckons it matters COUNTS
Refuses to fly, though having seats STALLS
Sent off to cover earthquake that impends THREATENS
Shows publicly, when one removes the coarser elements SCREENS
Singer who's a b----- fool! BASS
Support and comfort afforded to many EASEL
The chief, or main, trouble don't suppress DOMINANT
These jugs fell, according to the cockney EWERS
Upset, it is clear, by the run-out OVERTURN
Within one mile of the summit ACME