The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 23,870 - Oct 10 2002

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Cancels material prior to distress sale REPEALS
Charge crew with assignation MANDATE
Charms with appearances on stage ENTRANCES
Clean less than half of lawn for a start LAUNDER
Cool story from a cousin twice removed, say DISTANTRELATION
Cut the grass, protecting tops of daisies under cover REDUCED
English v Australian? Speak quietly at first and disappear EVAPORATE
Excuse for a party that finished with one ALIBI
Flight attendant and cook with a rugged exterior STEWARD
Instrument that's played softly PIANO
Inwardly copes with artists finding work in the theatre OPERA
Model gent (single) with family MANIKIN
Nat's into Spanish dish - it could be smoked PANATELLA
Nations need experts after the end of war RACES
Not a horse performing is in shape NONAGON
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Nuclear explosion not easily explained UNCLEAR
Old currency that was elaborate EXPOUND
Once they ran eagerly, making early starts - being fanatical EXTREME
Passage - but not around the end of September EXCERPT
People on the edge become service men VERGERS
Puzzle in French not an advantage NONPLUS
Raise, after marriage, is standard UNIONJACK
Restrict the arguments against school CONSTRAIN
Right way up (of the kidney) RENAL
Settled in fine, in the end ENSCONCED
Siding with gangster and not telling the truth ALLYING
The oily manner required for topless role UNCTION
This guy is well off with an article on the way RICHARD
Truman, with clever lob, destroyed the backbone VERTEBRALCOLUMN
Very large vehicle gets award for performance OSCAR