The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,265 - Jan 16 2004

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A cause of increasing litter STRETCHER
A food store takes time in organizing display PAGEANTRY
A number viewed outside sporting contest SEVENTEEN
A penman getting credit ASCRIBE
A set piece for the board? MAN
Arrange a merger and get it near settlement INTEGRATE
Black stream JET
Call for more character and heart to be shown ENCORE
Check a little crawler carries small change INSPECT
Concerned with the first lady's stewards REEVES
Exercising some self-restraint, Ernest shut up INTERN
Flowery letters for all maybe FLORAL
German agreement many block JAM
Give grade incorrectly - much troubled in consequence AGGRIEVED
Go and apply for one BEGONE
He'll come down hard on a craft worker about to be sick ASSAILANT
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Make sure disputes can't arise ASCERTAIN
Most foreign streets are out of line STRANGEST
Not quite all losing money - the majority though ALMOST
Note nitrogen is one element TIN
Picked men with guns for a Greek heroine ELECTRA
Poor lot if employed in a minister's office PORTFOLIO
Practised play REHEARSED
Punishing the undergraduate making a joke about money GATING
Put on a top-coat ENAMEL
Remember mounting hesitation over form of prayer RECOLLECT
Short in support, and that's astounding STARTLING
The kind that is offensive SORTIE
The person painting European entertainer ARTISTE
This takes the biscuit in a social reformer! RUSKIN
When the outlook is dark things must change NIGHTS
With private transport always make speedy progress CAREER