The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,544 - Dec 7 2004

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Clues Answers
'I'm great!' boasts French detective, quite improperly MAIGRET
A made-up dairy product EDAM
A right, then a left, that's the way to the sea ARAL
A suitable match for a goddess VESTA
An artist about to become hard to acquire RARE
Army division takes back island, capturing girl, which can be put right REMEDIABLE
Avenging hero's spirited horse? STEED
Backward clergyman only afterwards told of artist VERMEER
Brandy peer is offering drunken clergyman PREBENDARY
Canine companions for Communist crossword compilers REDSETTERS
Cotton on to this kind of dancing REEL
Cover nothing on the beach! LIDO
Grand scheme is to divert stream in front of factory, but no time MASTERPLAN
Guaranteed, when certain to do nothing less ASSURED
He makes capital investment, which may be mad HATTER
Makes merry, after Left replaces Right, in beer drunk in crates CELEBRATES
Clues Answers
Mineral content to a small degree found in marine vegetation Oreweed
Mother left thanks on reaching island MALTA
Old comic reads flier's last letter to the queen BEEZER
Peter would dig these! BURROWS
Rail ticket receipt offering food options BILLOFFARE
Real dry beer, not a blend of fruit ELDERBERRY
Sceptically request a new church building ASKANCE
Six feet under FATHOM
The cleaner on board takes one in, which is kind CHARITABLE
The front cover of 'Scheherezade'? YASHMAK
The meat is pale, we're told STEAK
The straits to which one is reduced? NARROWS
The way to turn hot tap on PATH
Unpopular Tsarist elements of creative activity ARTS
Winger meets American girl ANGELA
£1 in Britain is easily said GLIB