The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,252 - Aug 22 2004

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A man? Bother! HARRY
A number, worn out, can swim no longer DROWN
A sunny 'OK by me!' FINE
Adding, myself, to the general row MELEE
An eccentric (a true eccentric) a character NATURE
As arranged, rang to put off the relation GRANDAUNT
At the time, 'The Flying Raven' was a pub TAVERN
Attack and knock the sailor unconscious LAYABOUT
Cheated, but not by a pro? CONNED
Does for the men ROOKS
Dries out by mid-September and you move into RESIDE
Follows right back, having got the sack, to set upon TRACKS
Forces found in Verdi's composition DRIVES
Get rid of all that humbug about wine labels? DECANT
Gun shot CANNON
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I begin to cover up various personality quirks TRAITS
In an outburst of anger, lay about the soldier SERGEANT
Irritated by it, first young child goes inside ITCHY
Not that hard to trap. It's foolish THIS
Perhaps a young tom tit fluttering in the boy's grasp KITTEN
Place mark SPOT
Revealed more about having been operated on OPENEDUP
See staggering in late and get blazing SETALIGHT
Since you are French and returning from France, it's shrewd ASTUTE
Think it's the key to the back door BROOD
To have water sent up, ring POOL
Treatment that gives, initially, relief FIRSTAID
Two weeks after getting badly torn in a scuffle FORTNIGHT
Vehicle the youth capsized. He's very destructive VANDAL
What the broken-down actor needs to get going again? SPAREPART