The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,503 - Oct 20 2004

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Cinders, after midnight, splits GASHES
Crushed capers for jam SCRAPE
Cultivated, talented artist's imprisoned ARABLE
Double dutch, perhaps? POLYGAMY
Drop Ecstasy in trance DREAM
Experts are very big on public relations PROS
Find source of ancestry following start of tree TRACE
Fish was a bit off SMELT
Gallery opening ten at the earliest TATE
Gives out Oscar with limp shake PROCLAIMS
Good-for-nothing slob - a cove's back inside LAYABOUT
Is desperate for massages, we hear NEEDS
It's a bad habit to use advertisement's choice of words ADDICTION
It's impasse, old chum STALEMATE
Little room in the local to get tight SNUG
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Moving some distance taking in outside broadcast MOBILE
Not just a Little Englander BRIT
Old dancer missing first and last steps STAIR
Plant - where one may find it flipping excellent GARDENIA
Politician consumed by law and disorder RUMPLE
Pontoon - a card game BRIDGE
Prophetic spectre in play PRESCIENT
Ray's a gent, thank you very much! MANTA
Scrounger's urge to enter pub BEGGAR
Shake in abject remorse TREMOR
Show up the French at any time REVEAL
Stew's thick - tasteless! KITSCH
Thin copper instrument DILUTE
Trouble on Hampstead Heath for East Enders? CARIES
Wannabe star - pain to manage ASPIRANT