The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,375 - May 24 2004

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A long wandering tale ODYSSEY
A picking-up point PRONG
A theatrical number? ETHER
Bemused, lost again in thoughts of the old days NOSTALGIA
Churchman gets a pass, yet goes astray ACOLYTE
Dictate the rules, perhaps, and give up LAYDOWN
Doctor needs work-permit to set up drip DROPLET
Duck, plump and mouth-filling OROTUND
Feverish activity in temples? THROB
Guide one's behaviour CONDUCT
Her husband's always playing around, of course GOLFWIDOW
His companion was a wife and a mother to him OEDIPUS
If a plan goes awry, you might be INAFLAP
Inferior pedestrian crossing? UNDERPASS
Men writing about beer MALES
Noble act personified in Foreign Legion story BEAUGESTE
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Not free to rent cargo space on board LEASEHOLD
Old craft might flourish MAYFLOWER
One cell prepared for an Irish girl COLLEEN
Poem attributed to husband? LAYBY
Praises the upper house of Parliament in speech LAUDS
Precise instruction to enforce payment EXACT
Properties on the American Atlantic seaboard ESTATES
Round figures? NOUGHTS
Sailor can brew tea at first for the coach CHARABANC
Something that flies holding a large number - it's gigantic MAMMOTH
They have taken cover on the hills CAPTORS
Though a pound short, victualler may be making a profit LUCRATIVE
Travelled like Lady Godiva with nothing on - a wild show! RODEO
View from the flats SCENERY
Wash the one French article that's German LAUNDER
Worker was setting up a tool HANDSAW