The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 23,899 - Nov 13 2002

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Clues Answers
Angry outburst by the first worker over drink TANTRUM
Cane and thrash renegade to start with RATTAN
Clinging to church leader before departure CLEAVING
Creature found in sunny Alabama NYALA
Distant object is an old coin FARTHING
Everyone rises to support oriental woman ELLA
Everything a conjurer needs to carry? BAGOFTRICKS
Fan acquires old farm vehicle EXTRACTOR
Figure it's the right house doctor needed RHOMB
Formality found in celebrity church STARCH
He was Adam and Eve's first child THIRDPERSON
Henry Ford initially got a fair share HALF
Hound two animals a farmer may have BULLDOG
Incidentally, it's beside the road BYTHEWAY
Intend to shelter Jack from attack SETABOUT
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It's plain sailing when the puzzle's omitted NOPROBLEM
Jogger is about to get a bodyguard REMINDER
Many I rebuke soundly after release LIBERATE
Pole enters region that's a centre of conflict ARENA
Popular place to keep stored information INPUT
Puritan so distressed and dazed INASTUPOR
Reel as a result of shock STAGGER
Say 'funny bone' HUMERUS
Square peg in a round hole MISFIT
Stipulation put in merely to make things easier SIMPLIFY
Subject one has to choose endlessly TOPIC
Sullen old Portuguese banker DOURO
Thanks Frenchman repeatedly for supplying gong TAMTAM
Volunteer harbours aim to see transgressor OFFENDER
Write a note, then start to angle DROPALINE