The Telegraph - GENERAL CROSSWORD NO: 565 - Aug 31 2003

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A very small brook RILL
Abbreviation for a mathematical term ANTILOG
Alternative spelling for an eagle's nest AERY
Berry-like fruit of a garden flower ROSEHIP
Big or heavy splash, stain or spot SPLOTCH
Brightest star in Scorpius constellation ANTARES
Capital of Ecuador QUITO
City buried by Vesuvius in 79AD POMPEII
Depart hurriedly and furtively ABSCOND
Desert lynx of North Africa or South Asia CARACAL
French Algerian cavalryman SPAHI
Independent animal body ZOOID
Island west of the Outer Hebrides ROCKALL
King of Mercia 757-796, dyke builder OFFA
Labour leader 1992-4 SMITH
Largest Caribbean island CUBA
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Mammal with padded toes eg camel or llama Tylopod
Mountains in eastern South Australia FlindersRange
Name until 1971 of the United Arab Emirates TRUCIALSTATES
Nightmare or obsession that worries or disturbs greatly INCUBUS
One to whom the management of property is committed TRUSTEE
Person in charge of sacred vessels, vestments etc. of a church SACRIST
Pertussis WHOOPINGCOUGH
Plant that yields a blue dye WOAD
Queen of the Olympian gods JUNO
Refraining from consuming or doing something LEAVING
Ring round the head of a holy person HALO
Rocky ridge in South Africa containing the world's richest gold deposits WITWATERSRAND
Selected passage from a book EXCERPT
Small active brown bird WREN
Small carved ornament from Japan NETSUKE
Trumping Ruffing