The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 23,792 - Jul 11 2002

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A hopeless cause - being late, out for nought DEADDUCK
Bill opened with request for lounge BASK
Bug, we hear! EARWIG
Call the servants to book, at first TITLEPAGES
Chop up bones DICE
Come back for help before clan's verbal onslaught DIATRIBE
Dangerous creatures found in large two-hulled boats BIGCATS
Delay union supporting Germany DALLIANCE
Downhill racer supporting exercise as more of a nuisance PESKIER
Finishes with victory over King Edward, say! WINDUPS
Funny kids' publication, half-hearted COMICAL
Gets grime off, leaving sandy deposits in them EGGTIMERS
Imply that it's private INTIMATE
Niggle over function of seamstress's output NEEDLEWORK
Not often finding artist at bank RARELY
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Oddly flawed, ruined creature of myth FAERIE
Open prison sufficed CANDID
Parliamentary official, one might say SPEAKER
Pine in front of this ice cream CONE
Ponder mail as an anagram for 'wet stew', perhaps PALINDROME
Proposes to swallow first of the pills TABLETS
Raise game, though exhausted BEAT
Resolve on a simpler objective IMPERSONAL
Said to differ? Acquiesce - or not! DISAGREE
Sign that no crop is gathered SCORPION
Some fried bread for the men, we hear, not getting up CROUTON
Stirs at it vigorously during a long time AGITATES
Tear delicate fabric - tear badly LACERATE
The House of Lords in summer is unrivalled PEERLESS
Transgressed, having crossed king, and was fleeced SKINNED