The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,239 - May 23 2004

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A little seafood - that's pukka, we hear COCKLE
A packed case HOLSTER
A teeny-weeny tailless fly MIDGE
Abash and bother ADO
Bird with a pointed tail and a crest CROWN
Check the animals are ones inured to cold REINDEER
Deduce that you wind it up CONCLUDE
Gift the Queen will get in the near future OFFERING
Hard-wearing material for school DRILL
Having found water, plunged in to submerge DIVINED
He dropped a key into the canyon GEORGE
In a shipwreck coming back, half the crew die PERISH
In the duet, Elsie sounded sweet DULCET
Is liable and pays for STANDS
It's rare to have fewer than five hundred, one added UNDERDONE
Made public the unauthorised sale of dogs AIREDALES
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Made up stories about a gun that obeyed spoken commands? LISTENED
Pay fro the fish when you get it! COD
Plenty of gaol-breakers about GALORE
Prepared to hang, having falsified evidence FRAMED
Ran amok, therefore, going in for crime ARSON
Shot from the American female team BROADSIDE
Shut up and dash off PEN
So are trained, but to guard, one confirms BEARSOUT
Sportsman who has the cutting edge FENCER
The female is a character, some say EWE
Tight-fitting, let out? UNLOOSE
Treated like a hero, Edgar toured round the country GARLANDED
Understood to be in the red? A pack of lies! REALISED
Was a non-runner, as stated DECLARED
Was forced to deduct for the fish HADDOCK
Would they enable a cat to whip cream? WHISKERS