The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,249 - Aug 1 2004

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Clues Answers
A contraption to rid the world of evil? DEVICE
And yet, there is a likeness STILL
Are roughly only half premature? EARLY
As the ventriloquist will his dummy, to perform CARRYOUT
Bruce, brandishing a stick, enters as the pirate BUCCANEER
Cardinal is awfully cagey about business AGENCY
Contend the noise is made by a bird SPARROW
Diamond in a cuboid shape, perhaps ICE
Dislike and say so in a roundabout way AVERSION
Does teach to drive CONSTRAIN
For each dressed up miss, wreathed in smiles SIMPERS
Funny business over a false claim COMICAL
Globe given by returning sibling ORB
Go on dancing once one has turned in CONTINUE
Gracious! Is that what made the kippers so good? HOLYSMOKE
Having quarrelled with, scribble a rude note to pop in ARGUED
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He's not hiding in the bathroom SHOWER
Intention is to roll back the stone trapping the girl MEANING
Like the old robot's hair? IRONGREY
Loudly telling us to say nothing about taking the trip SHOUTING
Rib from a baby goat KID
Shows the lady's onto us! USHERS
So I do straighten out a bend in that's horrible ODIOUS
So turned in having had a meal, as expected SUPPOSED
The sheerer the better FINER
Unhappy about the document and papers therein DEPRESSED
United, triumphed over, we're told ONE
Wearing a hat in the farmyard? CAPON
Weather's worse, mister. Wrap up or come in STORMIER
Why everybody knows you are a bank clerk TELLER
Will influence, you assume AFFECT
Winning number, it is hoped, for the lady SERENADE