The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,074 - Jun 6 2003

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A farm-worker exercises in the end REAPER
A festival including a show REVEAL
A sailor keeps food in dry wrapping SEAFARER
Arrival of a head of department at an opening ADVENT
Assumption of superiority that's the making of a team SIDE
Beat up a cricketer? BATTER
Chastened tot - nicer maybe as a result CONTRITE
Check mis-sorted post STOP
Choose the French relish PICKLE
Comforting with some words of tender concern SOFT
Compromise with intention to cause bitter resentment ENDANGER
Dorothea's alter ego THEODORA
Favoured and looked after as expected INTENDED
He gets around a woman, the German male! EVADER
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It's light in sea-going craft PORTHOLE
Kidney-shaped - there's no firmer construction RENIFORM
Land concerned with alcoholic drink say REALESTATE
Many a guy holding on can appear uncertain CONTINGENT
Remaining magnanimous about the noise BIDING
Stage a favourite's comeback STEP
Such beastly manoeuvring becomes habit over a period DRESSAGE
Tell stories about some fool girl LASSIE
Terminal that can get top men irritated KINGSCROSS
The maggot is anything but aggressive GENTLE
The way an organisation rues mismanagement COURSE
This man has a home surmounted by royal insignia ERNEST
Turning pale, proved to have gone too far Overlapped
Votes against holding really large bonds NOOSES