The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 25,987 - Jul 22 2009

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Attack is the custom of the people! WAYLAY
Chicken Peter Oosterhuis has consumed ROOSTER
Darling, we won't trouble the scorers DUCKS
Desert dwellers start to play after taking coke CACTI
Digger's suit SPADES
Division's dry approaching hill SECTOR
Does it hold water, appearing to suck up to mother? HOOVERDAM
Drink breaks demanded by drunkard? SCHNAPPS
Employ one to apply squeeze, entering dodgily-acquired property in Little Venice? HOUSEBOAT
Getting fair share, sick as a parrot? PRORATA
Giver and taker of orders, I'm first to read Porterhouse Blue? MOTHERSUPERIOR
He's little pride about him! LIONCUB
Is one hitting the nightspots hard? CLUBBER
It's worth having when ready ASSET
Keep one variation of dialect CITADEL
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Loads thrown away by Spurs, expecting contract PURSE
On table, beat bottom that leaves little to the imagination! OVERTRUMP
One Roman assassin's head turned by something creepy in the garden ARBUTUS
Religiously one keeps newspaper OBSERVER
Some cards having a couple of drinks with Lord! GINRUMMY
Subject to a bit over three hundred TOPIC
Suitable output for the Stones? ROCKOPERA
Super-duper houses lost to view PERDU
The elderly admitting dreadful drag covers a measured area YARDAGE
The other relative question for art house - why fake? HOWSYOURFATHER
Topless, liking charm ENCHANT
Tripe from hand to mouth CLAPTRAP
Unpleasant people right to present tale of woe SOBSTORY
Upset, hear about agreement TREATY
Your crooked mates smuggled in a gem AMETHYST