The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 23,746 - May 18 2002

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A room on high ALOFT
An appointment with the French evangelist APOSTLE
Bill included rickety chair that is old-fashioned ARCHAIC
Cabby unfortunately accepted lines from tearful person CRYBABY
Correspond with one using no end of colour AGREE
Deliver raw material first for armed vessel WARSHIP
Do not use the piece that is an accessory SPAREPART
Firing a junior - that's about right ARSON
Four less in costly charge EXPENSE
From Shanghai failed to reach another port HAIFA
How dirt might be removed efficiently CLEANLY
Jack to find the answer and pronounce blameless ABSOLVE
Joint did not start to fester ANKLE
Main purpose of rugby perhaps THENAME
Moving slowly south along the borders EDGINGS
No women coming from the crescent NEWMOON
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Noted sliding movement? GLISSANDO
Nothing more than bar of metal for the dynamo MAGNETO
Off-peak price said to be for fertiliser NITRATE
One basic constituent of the weather ELEMENT
Overlooking trouble EYESTRAIN
Picturesque part of East Anglia - or a police-state? CONSTABLE
Present-day speech about worship ADORATION
Quite sour sort of colour TURQUOISE
Reaching very high speed before exploding GOING
Remarkably grim worker is a moving person MIGRANT
Removed unit to eastern half of Russia or another country TUNISIA
Reported a tidier girl ANITA
SECOND PART OF 12 ofthegame
SECOND PART OF 18 COUNTRY
SECOND PART OF 2 likeabomb
Severely criticise the joint ROAST