The Telegraph - GENERAL CROSSWORD NO: 553 - Jun 8 2003

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A jump from one skate to the other AXEL
Acronym for quotation system for American shares NASDAQ
Arachnid with whiplike appendage at rear of the body SCORPION
Body of an aeroplane FUSELAGE
Cross at the entrance to a church chancel ROOD
Form of an insect between two moults INSTAR
George - - , British comedian 1904-61 FORMBY
Hops are an ingredient in this alcoholic drink BEER
It runs ahead of the greyhounds ELECTRICHARE
Italian Benedictine monk who became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1093 ANSELM
Jules - - , French symbolist poet 1860-87 Laforgue
L-shaped bar used in structural work ANGLE
London mainline and underground station CHARINGCROSS
Low scrubby thicket BRUSH
One draws them as a means of singling out one person LOTS
One followed by one hundred zeros GOOGOL
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One on a merry drinking spree CAROUSER
Person eager to learn news and scandal QUIDNUNC
Pithecolobium saman, a tropical American plant of the mimosa family RAINTREE
Place for developing and printing photographs DARKROOM
Refined incisive wit ATTIC
Round-shelled genus of warm sea gasteropods Nerita
SECOND PART OF 13 SALT
SECOND PART OF 15 IRON
SECOND PART OF 16 DOWN
SECOND PART OF 24 WOOD
SECOND PART OF 4 SPIDER
Severe or repressive measures CRACK
Son of William the Conqueror who conquered Normandy in 1106 HENRYI
Special ability to grow plants GREENFINGERS
Story told in pictures STRIPCARTOON
Swinging weight on a clock PENDULUM