The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,079 - Jun 12 2003

Tired of your current crossword puzzle? Try solving our daily crossword puzzles. GO TO DAILY PUZZLES!
Clues Answers
A crowd, perhaps, runs into you - once THREE
A rough scramble in the noisy shopping centre MAUL
A small cut obtained from prison? NICK
A water heater might be low priority BACKBURNER
Corrupt mature middlemen on charge ADULTERATE
Discussion group for preparing marines SEMINAR
Distinguished, but lacking ability NOTABLE
Edited with care in order to perform a ceremony in church Rededicate
Farm animal under trees a long time is a bird WOODPIGEON
Flexible, within the limits of secular slide SLITHER
Give back the others before losing half RESTORE
How to eat cuts of meat with signs of approval? CHOPSTICKS
In front of the judge, drunk and tense UPTIGHT
Lean and working, showing sinew TENDON
Leave quickly and fasten the door BOLT
Long for a church service's end ACHE
Clues Answers
Master mariner executed for getting fish KIPPER
Not a wholly admirable hold! HALFNELSON
One short story, one chapter of writing, perhaps ITALIC
Person who's mostly compassionate to scrounge outside home HUMANBEING
Putting the gun back means curtains NETS
Quietly live to obtain control PRESIDE
Reported row to head SKULL
Rings friends to welcome sweetheart PEALS
Rock salmon starter - and then fish! SHAKE
Sap from lettuce hearts COSH
Silly billy going to earth CLOD
The sort of light under which to display Chilean red? CHANDELIER
Trade licence covering store DELI
Wandering harangue on royal ERRANT
Well-read and inclined to protect rebel leader LEARNED
Where fires start raging in moorlands? HEARTHS