The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,161 - Nov 24 2002

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Clues Answers
'They're kidding,' one says nervously TWITTERS
A report from the sick room SNEEZE
Attacked in the ring? ROUNDEDON
Bosses who may rap young recalcitrants on the knuckles RULERS
By also turning in, spoils BOOTY
Dismiss Tom and his companion CATCH
Everybody is in drag - and fat TALLOW
Fiddle with something in the toolbox CHISEL
Go their separate ways back to the vehicle PART
How the socialist defected? LEFT
Lead to the wood on the right STARBOARD
Left inside edge SIDLE
Left one M out of 'marmalade,' perhaps LEMON
Nicked, as arranged SCORED
One arranged to take the old dodderers in food NOODLE
Clues Answers
Only off for a time! NOON
Striking with the cue SIGNAL
The foreign couple are a plant ELDER
The lady with the master is one of the mothers MADAM
The male spider crawled outside and died PERISHED
The ship, then, will sail, should the weather improve? BRIGHTEN
The song 'One Morning in the Spring' LAMENT
The table does lean to one side LIST
There's the entrance. Duck right in, chum! PORTAL
Undersized but large when it gets let out LITTLE
Very many animals - lots and lots MASSES
Whatever happens, whether coming or going EITHERWAY
When there are rifts, informs on SPLITS
Wine's carried in for the instrument CLARINET
You don't understand, miss FAILTOSEE