The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,137 - Jun 9 2002

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A defence against aerial attack SCARECROW
Ask for money - only a very little TOUCH
Catch, you say, glimpses SEES
Come back, dear, one day when it's warm TEPID
Cuts and tints, we're told HEWS
Decreeing how one is getting one's meal ORDERING
Does, after the break-up, get dead lonely DESOLATE
Doesn't ring true! MISDIALS
Either cleared or got caught by NETTED
Grant you do talk it over with CONFER
Group go north of the border GANG
He had caught and passed it on to HANDED
Is capable, accomplished and plain-spoken CANDID
It's an effort to make notes STRAIN
Manage to put on the right track DIRECT
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Note sounded by the singer TENOR
Offer to take home when told to BIDDEN
Pale and flushed by turn, seem confused WANDER
Rang and gave the news verbally TOLLED
Resumed painting, having taken a break outside RESTARTED
Say with venom 'Shoot at the WW2 plane' SPITFIRE
Secure with string CHAIN
Tear, perhaps, in fall DROP
The fish, a char, is swimming round in it ROACH
Things to be done requiring time and hassle AGENDA
Thought twice about changing the dates one had entered HESITATED
Truly hard time one's going through HONEST
Wavering - it's not a cinch UNCERTAIN
Well oiled, as a gun may be LOADED
Willing to study a year READY