The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,373 - May 21 2004

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Clues Answers
A bird or a ploughman's lunch? FIELDFARE
A confection offered in summer in Guernsey MERINGUE
A person thinking to share a table RATIONALIST
A reading desk for a doctor, nothing more AMBO
A Russian individual with leading position IVAN
Dreadful noise - a din - coming from many islands INDONESIA
Ends against a stump facing the wrong way ABUTS
Inferior boats ruined - smashed to pieces SUBORDINATE
It's a crime breaking a truce ARMISTICE
Making a lofty point over the church STEEPLE
Mealy-mouthed party leader PILOT
Means to tell how old people are AVERAGES
Minister at the head of a sovereign country PASTORAL
No-one up. No comment! RIDERLESS
Obtained from the USA GOTTEN
Clues Answers
Out of turn? That's right EXACT
Particular deference RESPECT
Put down English conservationists with little hesitation ENTER
Rioted, upsetting a top man EDITOR
Sailors love orders to get clear ABSOLVE
Separating if in smart environment SIFTING
Shut up and honour upstart in anger IMMURE
Sine qua non in action EVIDENCE
Striking the Tories totally OUTRIGHT
Sweets sent back under pressure STRESSED
Swimmers appear delighted about the river BREAM
The plea presented in another place ALIBI
Works with sound requirements KNEADS
Write melody. There's a taste for it PENCHANT
Wrong article about sickly Latin American food TORTILLA