The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 23,852 - Sep 19 2002

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Clues Answers
Belief that energy is absorbed by canvas TENET
Bouquet delivered to the front of the plane NOSE
Chew over and risk an investment SPECULATE
Crazy students drinking time NUTS
Delaying outburst about trade problem RETARDANT
Dicey game of tick? TOUCHANDGO
Does it make gentility seem a particular obsession? SIEGEMENTALITY
Drunken Scot sold beer? No - not at all! STONECOLDSOBER
Fish pie unfinished - managed to have half PIRANHA
House filler ELECTORATE
Join in lewd play WELD
Mainly faithful worker may play hookey TRUANT
Middle Eastern merit award given to a province OMANI
Mountaineer's requirement to start pulling 20 cwt PITON
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Nelson's house? 11 HORATIO
One meant to correspond with prisoner INMATE
Proportion spending a time in port RATIO
Rubbish left under motor DRIVEL
Saddler at work on rider's stance ASTRADDLE
Summon the prisoner - even for display CONVENE
The approach to landing in London APPLESANDPEARS
The early bird and the paper man played around LARKED
The Italian, in future perhaps, can be stretched TENSILE
The spirit failed, we hear, to provide illusion SCOTCHMIST
The wheels needed to put fish on the slab? SKATEBOARD
Therefore return the monster OGRE
Uninformed ideas about procreation Preconceptions
Vegan rice freak with a grudge GRIEVANCE