The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,388 - Jul 15 2007

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A stick for the dog POINTER
About to do wrong; to transgress. Was a vice STOODIN
Backtracking, from a good family, half became crooks MAFIA
Blast! Their new guard is no good THIRDRATE
Clothing, one at a time SINGLET
Convinced one the interior is robust SOLID
Do, round about here, contrive to encourage CHEERON
Doctors outside hospital get warnings THREATS
Finds, when one assaults LAYSHANDSON
Having music when one drives oneself STRAINS
He had to? That's silly. He's foolhardy HOTHEAD
How the actor playing the giant spoke? STILTEDLY
Is no lover of French exams DETESTS
Little dears coming back to walk the dog MOPPETS
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Mark down each damaged by a pound CHEAPEN
Meant to carry out a repair, for a change AMENDMENT
Misrepresent as ''Lands liberated by the sovereign'' SLANDER
None of the irrigated land one's entitled to JUSTDESERTS
One won't strike at the slightest provocation SAFETYMATCH
Order given with the appropriate expression RIGHTFACE
Paws things in the said shopping arcades MAULS
Pouring into the outer container, he takes care JANITOR
Predestined, you say, to be celebrated FETED
Pretty girl in awful newspaper a child's carrying RAGDOLL
Should fruit mature, birds will have it PLUMAGE
Stop with the firm STAUNCH
Strain to keep from REFRAIN
When one becomes work-shy? RETIRINGAGE