The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,539 - Dec 1 2004

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A base in operation AFOOT
A party must have go BASH
About to kill without demur during attack ONSLAUGHT
Anything but an honour for Nick NOTCH
Auditorium needed by English orchestra HALLE
Benefit from withdrawing investment ASSET
Bound to be examined without Rex TIED
Czech capital makes couple exclaim in surprise PRAHA
Eleven children - a minor concern SIDEISSUE
Expeditious ways to produce crops SHORTCUTS
Explosive material from yearly meeting held by graduate MAGMA
Fasten at the end of one's finger NAIL
Fort gets a harvest on poor soil ACROPOLIS
Illness leaves parents powerless MUMPS
It isn't moral, sadly MORTALSIN
Little interest about points in magazine section INSET
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Lose feathers, say, when given barley MALT
Many finished by getting insurance COVER
Minister for War PADRE
Ned gets involved with master builders, maybe TRADESMEN
Polo centres are the subject of loving words SWEETNOTHINGS
Races to win boxing awards BELTS
Relative who needs financial support DEPENDENT
Rotate small skittle SPIN
Some of the landed gentry had style ELAN
Sounds manually dainty - just what a conjurer needs SLEIGHTOFHAND
Stop to find a house in Washington WHOA
Threatening? I am undecided IMPENDING
Trunk removed from a hill like this TORSO
Unpolished evangelist MATT
VIP is enough for us to manage Guestofhonour
Ways to discover precise travelling costs Thoroughfares