The Telegraph - GENERAL CROSSWORD NO: 635 - Jan 2 2005

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Clues Answers
- - gum, eruption of skin in teething babies RED
1978 film about an American student in Turkey MIDNIGHTEXPRESS
Archaic word for a prescribed penance SHRIFT
Caithness town north-west of Wick THURSO
Capital of Cambodia PHNOMPENH
Covered with cracks RIMOSE
Dramatic work characterised by slapstick and burlesque LOWCOMEDY
Film and musical with song 'Doing What Comes Naturally' ANNIEGETYOURGUN
George Horace - - ,US statistician who devised an opinion poll GALLUP
Greek satirist noted for 'Dialogues of the Gods' LUCIAN
Important in the highest degree ESSENTIAL
In Scotland, move rapidly with a whizzing sound Wheech
Malignant water-sprite in the form of a horse KELPIE
Of a dish, served with white grapes VERONIQUE
Office of a Church of England parson Vicarship
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One of two bones between knee and ankle FIBULA
Pictures representing a continuous scene CYCLORAMA
Purely intellectual apprehension NOESIS
River flowing into North Sea at Aberdeen DEE
Sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting JACKSNIPE
Scientific study of nerve systems NEUROLOGY
Scottish word for a grandchild OYE
Segregation of races APARTHEID
Seventeenth letter of the Greek alphabet RHO
Sir James - - , British soldier who became first the rajah of Sarawak BROOKE
Subject to or deserving of scorn DERISIBLE
Town northeast of Crewkerne in Somerset Yeovil
Toy designed to test skill or ingenuity PUZZLE
Very small dog with pointed ears CHIHUAHUA
Viral disease that is highly contagious INFLUENZA