The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,455 - Aug 25 2004

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A sad song from the Royal Horse Guards THEBLUES
Ambassador and a lecturer confronting each other HEADON
Anguish is brought by her, a cheat found out HEARTACHE
Conflicting directions to get a Communist trapped SNARED
Demonstratively cheery rugby players drinking BACKSLAPPING
Horizontal, having no variation up or down LEVEL
Ill-proportioned young lady Henry imitated MISSHAPED
Like a cow with a nasty smell by a woody plant BOVINE
Mineral in rock strangely isolated SODALITE
Mysterious situation in game being played ENIGMA
Not just a seat for a Derbyshire MP CHESTERFIELD
One who may get to hide - a nervous type? TWITCHER
Person providing additional support could be pots! BACKSTOP
Philosopher's urgent message on outside of box SOCRATES
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Plant giving trouble had turned over DAHLIA
Position a new church on south side of street STANCE
River gets in low place, creating flood DROWN
Roadside emergency service chap hurried RACED
Secure provision for fishing in shipping area FASTNET
Silly Hellenic yarn maybe CHENILLE
Strange Manx cat creates disturbance RUMPUS
Take it easy in the sun, having got information SLOWDOWN
Terribly bad men immersed in booze may be reformable AMENDABLE
Those who look for the impossible from highest man in America? UTOPIANS
Thoughtlessly cruel desire to get on WANTON
We rest uneasily in bed - blankets and sheets being this? Bestrewed
Wild animal - it turned up and upset man TIGER
With regard those things we wait for, they can be puzzling REBUSES