The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 23,872 - Oct 12 2002

Tired of your current crossword puzzle? Try solving our daily crossword puzzles. GO TO DAILY PUZZLES!
Clues Answers
All the congregation will know this passage AISLE
Be there in this ATTENDANCE
Boycott land in the Midlands BLACKCOUNTRY
Carefully chosen from her crèche RECHERCHE
Condition of orator with nothing to say for himself Speechlessness
Continues to exist but quietly resists change PERSISTS
Cut to the point that's critical SEVERE
Denizen of the wild wood almost got a mark of rank BADGE
Difficulty arising with study, it's a heavy load BURDEN
Dreads the inclusion of plumage FEATHERS
Employed people should not be working on them HOLIDAYS
Find out about loitering with intent SUSS
Group had only the goalposts? NONET
Having loitered a redhead is found in court? TARRIED
Clues Answers
Inscriptions of late EPITAPHS
It was a big loss to shipping TITANIC
Might well be part of a watch MAINSPRING
Naval race moved from cape in Florida CANAVERAL
Not of sound mind in said French river INSANE
Publicity hand-out on how to operate a parachute? PRESSRELEASE
Redirect battered tourer eastwards REROUTE
Singular spectacle MONOCLE
Some anosmia's masking unwholesome vapour MIASMA
Space allowed for removal of obstructions CLEARANCE
Trainee Tom from in France entered CADET
Unusually BBC overrides us when too many shares had been applied for OVERSUBSCRIBED
Was not hesitant when one used the push-button switch PRESSEDON
Work with a hard fish OPAH