The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 23,768 - Jun 13 2002

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...better. Penalty runs FINER
...technical work on replacement plates, perhaps DENTISTRY
A bird to leave on hilltop PARTRIDGE
A villa in Switzerland? A chalet DACHA
Apt to find out British game is truncated ABRUPT
Company deficit with American giant COLOSSUS
Cunning exam where little pests get stuck FLYPAPER
Debris makes for giveaways in church! BRIDES
Eccentric? Not even a bouncer could be... ODDBALL
Excess energy absorbed by varied fruits SURFEIT
Explorer's newspaper article mostly on public transport COLUMBUS
Fast opening to oratorio, then slow LENTO
Free the queen's jockey! RIDER
Hide, getting treatment from one TANNER
Island first seen in a hostile manner SICILY
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Key to the contents of the cupboard, perhaps SKELETON
Landed bit parts in television programme BLINDDATE
Made economies, started to save on what hairdresser might have done SCRIMPED
Protection for member belonging to us ARMOUR
Punishment that might mean stitches being replaced CHASTISEMENT
Run through the scale? LADDER
Skirt worn in the South of France MIDI
Speak of nothing with class ORATE
Staying at home? DWELLING
Temporary addition to capital growth HAIRPIECE
The archer, perhaps finding a string's broken STARSIGN
Unofficially fetch order of new... OFFTHERECORD
Unwilling to support Sunday indolence SLOTH
Verity has got no time for this girl! RUTH
What makes sugar? Class try to form them CRYSTALS