The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,258 - Oct 3 2004

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'Speech writing is a business,' I interposed TIRADE
About tests carried out in public places STREETS
Are inclined to let rain in, you find out LEARN
Carrying the can, got upset about TOTING
Erase, taking right out with no trouble EASE
Finding a mark in, did get rid of DISCARD
Flatten out and become less numerous DECREASE
Free to enter the shelters to get the weapons TRIDENTS
Game for men only STAG
Having given you a ride, will they make you pay? CHARGERS
He will put up the bill STICKER
Inclines, one admits, to fade out in the middle GRADIENTS
It's been made to go into action, unusually, again CREATION
Letter returned to you from France IOTA
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Making a grave mistake about the ailing countryman VILLAGER
Meaning one's influencing illegally GETTINGAT
Near in the clear - until tomorrow OVERNIGHT
Not a lovely day? Stop complaining - could be worse! SHOWERS
Put it up in jars or can it! STOP
Reason nothing escapes from the trap set SNARE
Say no to and the lad is terribly depressed DISALLOW
Skirt with a hole AVOID
Supplanted and put in the shade REPLACED
That father is taken aback by mother perhaps, is clear APPARENT
The way one grows old - by degrees STAGES
To a degree, won round the lady WOMAN
With the litigant who turns up, unfriendly all round DISPUTANT
With utter skill, managed to insert ARRANT