The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,382 - Jun 1 2004

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Clues Answers
A couple want me back first, then to adopt EMBRACE
A large African flower NIGER
A magazine for the American city type NEWYORKER
A rasher kind of poet? BACON
All batty about new doctor, obviously! BLATANTLY
Bearer points to artist ENDURER
Book receipt for the Queen, perhaps ROYALTY
Celebrity status of Ministry deserters who return STARDOM
Companionship within the community SOCIETY
Dangers faced by clergyman using badly-made skis RISKS
Dice are thrown and left inside by Spanish hero ELCID
Dog loses tail in France ALSATIA
Drove away without charm? DISPELLED
Exerts pressure and the animal's on the floor BEARSDOWN
Fed-up with academic knowledge? CRAMMED
Finish by removing mice, which are prevalent ENDEMIC
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Helps when a ship sits, listing ASSISTS
Hold with a force and turn key ARMLOCK
In Norfolk town, muddled German may stray DIGRESS
In twelve months fish will meet first sea-horses YEARLINGS
It's jelly, as illustration shows ASPIC
Jumpers with large pockets WALLABIES
Mark or Michael at the BBC GRADE
Obtain without payment and make one's escape GETFREE
Plant fibre made from some thistles ISTLE
Put at risk a London college if Academician enters IMPERIL
Rejection of detective's book DISMISSAL
Simple chap, but has the measure of crime writer SIMENON
Superhero with his own website? SPIDERMAN
The kindness of a domestic - it continues for a year CHARITY
The second substandard track SPOOR
Veil seen in African country once bar is overturned Chaddor