The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,062 - May 23 2003

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A bigamist's Euro-babble? DOUBLEDUTCH
A course for the egg-producer LAYER
An infant prodigy - hardly surprising! SMALLWONDER
Back up say over nicer alternative in general GENERIC
Caring girl taking a crook in hand SHEPHERDESS
CO2 left to freeze COOL
Cropping expert HAIRDRESSER
Drier it may be, but more polluted DIRTIER
Duck behind a doctor's reading-desk AMBO
Exhibit some leaning for a blackguard HEEL
Fellows around the City misheard the figures Decahedrons
Forever acquiring silver - really keen EAGER
Going up Horseriding
Her make-up is in rainbow colours! IRIS
Made a point about short name being disdained SCORNED
Neighbour preparing a spread ABUTTER
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Note one retired to a place in Italy GENOA
Oriental coppers hold one key and that's marked SEEN
Person charging a consumer about two hundred ACCUSER
Pipe cut off by small daughter DUCT
Pollutes gorges DEFILES
Rile mob agitator to distract EMBROIL
Riotous characters were put in jug EWER
Scanned a newspaper leader about the old EYED
Set up a North and a South Yemen capital SANA
Sound exercise for certain animals EWES
Stitched according to directions SEWN
Take stock of the season to ensure good timing WATCHSPRING
Thanks repeatedly when saying goodbye TATA
The people engaged in trade mostly DEMOS
The player's increasing speed ACCELERANDO
To Americans this is plain PRAIRIE