The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 23,883 - Oct 25 2002

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Clues Answers
A man from the Orient making a hit THAI
A means of getting some degree of stability THERMOSTAT
A person dropping everything for youngsters left without shelter LITTERLOUT
A sound measure DECIBEL
A woman with articles to put into a case SHEATHE
Arrears of five hundred - best settled DEBTS
Autochthonous crew-member with an inventive mind ABORIGINAL
Barred enclosure for the working dramatist? PLAYPEN
Dismiss everyone in attendance TURNOUT
Duplicated letter from Greece that's precious CHICHI
Enter into the part - right in PIERCE
Exercise inside alone, or in public? OPENLY
Grit, that's the answer! RESOLUTION
Librarian ensuring all returns are duly dealt with? BOOKKEEPER
List as a matter of course MENU
Nincompoop left in a spot DOLT
Clues Answers
None can be held in honour, blow it! OBOE
Outline the view taken over America PROSPECTUS
Puzzle no more! NONPLUS
Requiring a page, ring please APPEAL
Rude in a crude way, so not presented UNAIRED
Set one's heart on a jug of more modern style NEWER
Single - repeatedly given the bird IBIS
Solicitors put out in back-street TOUTS
Some patriot howled down this Roman emperor OTHO
State a hut should be renovated UTAH
The clue here is 'A sportsman's dog' POINTER
The egghead certainly looks on EYES
The people giving Danish leader partial backing DEMOS
The soup isn't on. Mere hash will have to do MINESTRONE
The tale told about exemplary put-down RELEGATION
Unfortunately he lacks restraint SHACKLE