The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,562 - Dec 29 2004

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Clues Answers
50 per cent written in verse? It makes one sick! EPIDEMIC
Balancing small party quota Libration
Broadsides from evening assembly LATERALLY
Bugs one in avant-garde cabaret BACTERIA
Cause of neuralgia in the cheek NERVE
Commons for the cattle shed LOWERHOUSE
Complaint made by clever RAF set SCARLETFEVER
Conform, as parade-grounds recruits do FALLINTOLINE
Custom a German put into practice USAGE
Demand that I tuck into shellfish CLAIM
Downcast, leaderless and banished EJECTED
Endeavour to incorporate people in Gothic design TRACERY
Fish served by Canterbury's special envoy TWAITE
Ideal garment for a sapper TRENCHCOAT
Idle head LOAF
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Irish customer is out of order IRREGULAR
It's Fay's resolve to make reparation SATISFY
Luke's laws ACTS
Man-eater makes Cockney woman turn back OGRE
Means to see junior editor with attitude SUBSTANCE
Minister appeared mid-morning with daughter ATTEND
Old historian died in worker's embrace BEDE
Pottered around mending pots TINKERED
Remains of a meal AFTERTASTE
Solicitor welcomes agents into party SOCIAL
Some royal tattoo staged in the Crimea YALTA
Striking migrant in the road SALIENT
Turnover made by fair-weather sailor, say SOMERSAULT
Work in section producing comic strips POPART
Writer has points to mention first ESSAYIST