The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,133 - Aug 14 2003

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A long time after mother gets compensation DAMAGES
A strong desire to deliver shirt on time THIRST
Attack bees swarming around one, for example BESIEGE
Call about trouble for fence RAILING
Carters have to measure up people DRAYMEN
Finished behind Britain, bowed BENDED
Granting occupation to Latvian in government LETTING
Greed for a very adult staple food AVARICE
Hack around Hackney - how ghastly! MACABRE
Listen to storyteller on prison term for Australian flyer LYREBIRD
Made possible by being fit in final ENABLED
Maiden to supply weapons and their method of delivery OVERARM
Mount an attack on USA, last to fall ASSAULT
Name of girl coming across Scottish mountain plant VERBENA
Paparazzi's risky ventures LONGSHOTS
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Party promises to reveal nothing MANIFESTO
Perceptive raptor (spotted) EAGLEEYED
Polite untruths are said to educate CIVILISE
Poor individual taken in by poets' game BILLIARDS
Post accepted by high flyer AIRMAIL
Red setter, for instance, finds tar SEADOG
Representative in 'The Cheshire Cheese'? CAMEMBERT
Sailor's call for effort - gets the sack HEAVEHO
Sings badly - notedly so, but not dismissed YODELS
The legal profession misses these workers BARMAIDS
Times of happiness turn a legend fashionable GOLDENAGE
Union member might have one veto BLOCKVOTE
Weapon used by party on hill exercises TORPEDO
Where a swimmer turns in a protracted way ATLENGTH
With sixth sense, managed to assimilate English language ESPERANTO