The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,236 - May 2 2004

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Clues Answers
'Renter,' minus the second and fifth letters LESSEE
A mite in a cot rocked by the father FRACTION
A new pal, invigorating but not romantic PLATONIC
Although Hugh was dismissed, he's scored highly ALTO
An easy one for the examinee SITTER
Awkward spots for meat preservers! CORNERS
Barely shift! STREAK
Bowed to the dopes congregated outside STOOPED
Communications from Green, in trouble MESSAGES
Decides it was a mistake to have become engaged? RETREATS
Drat! That is a disappointment! BLOW
Fed up, swallow the drubbing DEFEAT
Get comfortable having returned, arms and leg bound up SNUGGLE
How long it took Ben to bag a duck? HOUR
I am in pursuit of the carriage CHAISE
In the telling, later on, let slip about one RELATION
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Living in, the others and I room in it RESIDENT
Loves meandering round the English roads ADORES
Not bad: will be capable of cultivation BEARABLE
Nuts for the savoury biscuits CRACKERS
Or pretend to be shielding alien FOREIGN
Reads quickly through a page in: works perfunctorily SKIMPS
Says 'About time,' when one takes preventive action AVERTS
Sell off 8, on leaving it RETAIL
Show round, now, and you follow SHADOW
Shrink from making a deal CONTRACT
Slick and underhand about their machinations SLITHERY
Speak of as 'an editor turned writer' DESCRIBE
Talk to the person giving you the injection JABBER
The language, when Alice moved to the wrong end! GAELIC
They're keen to be good-lookers EYES
What the green fee amounts to? ROUNDSUM