The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,268 - Dec 12 2004

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Adult lost gull you disapprove of caging FULLGROWN
At the end of the day, they're why we all need enlightening SUNSETS
Can't possibly mail in to the one who says it's his CLAIMANT
Closes the case up, putting it among the packed chests STITCHES
Either stabs or thumps CRACKS
Feel, to a minor degree, silly SENSELESS
Fix the little terror! PICKLE
Fret work frame provided by myself MOPE
Gosh! A full fifty pounds cut on the holiday resort! CORFU
Has a 50's ring to it as well ALSO
His advances should be spurned! USURER
Holds, as one grapples with CONTENDS
It's an east-west struggle to appropriate, my dear SWEET
Ladder I found in the building now demolished RUIN
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Memorial that will be unwrapped in a jiffy MONUMENT
More intimate one concludes? CLOSER
Outsmart me in, but be slow to say so? STAMMER
Rat on the lawn GRASS
Take it back again and the land with it RETRACT
The car - a beauty - is about to reduce DIMINISH
The chiefs are back inside? Nonsense! EDITORS
The first French street? That's right! TRUE
The treatment of the handmaiden? MANICURE
They do the wrong thing concerning fireguards OFFENDERS
Think the son tumbled and cried out CONSIDER
Tired of the silly debate now entered into DEADBEAT
To give a party, getting into a new dress ENDOW
Underdressed and wandering in late, same as ever UNALTERED