The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,197 - Aug 3 2003

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A prayer on coming in, when about to eat ENTREATY
A right twit, he'd gone round and pestered! HARASSED
Call Ros about the neckbands COLLARS
Caught the one fifty in the end: a mad scramble NAILED
Certain it will revert to me one day SOMETIME
Cold, rotten, I passed on. Sorry CONTRITE
Collides with on the trip: is not badly damaged RUNSINTO
Does some gardening, you know, in spare time WEEKENDS
Does turn in less agitated SWINDLES
Either tied or got beaten LASHED
Enter into further negotiations for asylum RETREAT
Extremely short hair set terrible; blub throughout STUBBLE
For the draper, someone hard to get rid of HANGERON
Gives the job to a pop group - isn't bad! APPOINTS
Giving the brooch on the spot for the apple PIPPIN
Grasp the space is for a name HUGO
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Gush out when you cut gently into SPLASH
Indicates the fielders POINTS
Involved in when one reached, having followed CAUGHTUP
May look like milk, perhaps, to the cat swallowing it LOTION
Mother said that's a naughty word! DAMN
Muffle sound of knock WRAP
Not enthusiastic and optimistic, no NEGATIVE
Pat is all right - taking a rest break outside STROKE
Race rings round him OTTO
Say to keep an eye on OBSERVE
Sensibly, as the yew is terribly large to put into WISELY
Sunday paper ordered by a soldier SAPPER
The stroke of midnight and a man appears GLANCE
To get involved with men, foolishly she runs after them ENMESH
What many, with age, suffer from in winter COLDNESS
When I do move, it's to protect the fools IDIOTS