The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,210 - Nov 12 2003

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50 per cent of city firms hold on to big businessmen TYCOONS
A flare of exceptional brilliance VERYLIGHT
A union leader, in Coventry perhaps, displays sharpness ACUITY
Adequate swimmers take in air FAIRISH
Another meeting about the wedding REUNION
Anything but a short valediction SOLONG
Ardent fan always supports church pioneer CHEERLEADER
As fraudulent as a bowman may be ONTHEFIDDLE
Awfully nice rinse? That's not true INSINCERE
Banter is rubbish CHAFF
Container made by Peruvian in Tennessee TINCAN
Detaining those left in a circus ARRESTING
Eat around six? Wonderful! DIVINE
Following defeat I shall order 'Quieten down!' BESTILL
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Gee! Is no management well-groomed? SOIGNEE
Girl takes everyone aback by getting a parrot ROSELLA
He must study church law CANON
In Cuba salary restrictions are essential BASAL
Just the boat for a vagabond DRIFTER
Perhaps the advice trainees got from WW1 heroine EDITHCAVELL
Prudence gets a formal warning CAUTION
Roisterous stableman - a real stunner LADDISH
The lady left a key on it maybe SHELF
To withdraw comedian is a gamble SCRATCHCARD
Weird rites said to have been ridiculed SATIRISED
What a feller does to economise CUTDOWN
What a sailor climbs on the equator? RATLINE
Where many of us meet some of the French? LOURDES