The Telegraph - GENERAL CROSSWORD NO: 780 - Oct 21 2007

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Alternative spelling for hot dusty wind from North Africa SCIROCCO
Book of David's devotional songs PSALTER
Cake filled with cream and covered with chocolate ECLAIR
Capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands PortBlair
Clandestinely and unobtrusively ONTHEQT
Collection of odds and ends JOB
Conflagration of dry bushes etc. BRUSHFIRE
Dialectal word for the nightjar, nocturnal European bird Evejar
Do or say something again ITERATE
French brandy COGNAC
German city, scene of decisive defeat for Napoleon Bonaparte in 1813 LEIPZIG
In - - , in collusion with CAHOOTS
King of Israel who succeeded Ahab (1 Kings 22:40) Ahaziah
Made someone more in need of sleep than is advisable OVERTIRED
Of a mollusc's bundle of filaments BYSSAL
Of the nature of trees ARBOREAL
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Of time before appearance of living things PREBIOTIC
People of gigantic power and influence COLOSSI
Person exploring all over in order to find something SEARCHER
Plant of a tobacco genus of the family Solanaceae NICOTIANA
Portable music instrument of the reed-organ family ACCORDION
Purplish-red North Atlantic seaweed CARRAGEEN
Realism in the arts especially in late 19th century Italian opera VERISMO
Red pepper that is grown in northern Spain PIQUILLO
Rubella, another name for German measles ROSEOLA
SECOND PART OF 11 LOT
SECOND PART OF 27 DOG
Strong feeling of dislike DISGUST
Vladimir - - , US novelist born in Russia NABOKOV
Whitish spot seen near horizon in thick mist FOG
Word for marzipan used until 19th century Marchpane
Yearly grant or allowance ANNUITY