The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 23,769 - Jun 14 2002

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Clues Answers
A choir-leader may turn corrupt CANTOR
A port (large) is ordered ALGIERS
A way speed can be controlled MODERATE
Answer sharply still RETORT
Basic personal treatment PEDICURE
Bearing with little back-street suckers SWEETS
Civil spoken casual worker put first TEMPORAL
Delay to rile constituents LOITER
Edge into disunited dwelling RESIDENT
Fire-water BURN
Freebooters set it down - and up BANDITTI
Fussy academic's huff about a newspaper leader PEDANT
Get up to present an old patriarch with some pictures LEVITATE
Getting caught in the panic is unusual SCARCE
Has a meal in a café at some expense EATS
Key to a hold-up in Northern Holland EDAM
Clues Answers
Lind's story about satisfied serving men LIMETREE
Not effectively hit, see! LAMELY
Old man cracking a nut ALMOND
Quietly came down as promised PLIGHTED
Reduce the volume of refuse TURNDOWN
Rise as about to close ASCEND
Sell now maybe, being affected by inflation SWOLLEN
She could be in rags, with nothing coming in SIGNORA
Show leaf to a conservationist body PAGEANT
Stop an animal feeding on fish SEAL
The ass on board likes a cigarette SMOKES
The Frenchwoman earned about a thousand MADAME
The writer of 'Lying in the Sun' BROWNING
Thespians can do it without going to pot! Takeacue
Wins support when opposed GAINSAID
Writing a youngster many a letter from Greece LAMBDA