The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,253 - Aug 29 2004

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A gander, we're told, with four legs PEKE
Abound with and you gather up TEEM
Alienate at the outset, having a row with ESTRANGE
Brought back and given a new name RECALLED
Cold lunchtime food is made hot by it CHILLI
Curtain down, take on tour SHOWOVER
Fight that always results in a draw? GUNBATTLE
Finished covering the hole - is painstaking THOROUGH
Gets to fly again among the birds EGRETS
He's representative of the very best type of man AGENT
How many had noticed the figure entering? SEVEN
In the overture, a note and bar PRECLUDE
Keep back to make some more wine from REPRESS
Learns otherwise about the doctor who used to work in hospital ALMONERS
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One box, turn upside-down UNIT
Part of a race-course you won't find cheating jockeys on? STRAIGHT
River has nothing of use OUSE
Running in, is impressive ARRESTING
Says, when the lock is put back in ASSERTS
Scratch the first two letters out, dear ABRADE
Tell you again and again it destroyed a tree REITERATE
The cockney is able to write, though it looks shaky ASPEN
The cost of it will be borne by the loser SEARCHFEE
They won't prevent you from reading them LETTERS
Tries to drill a hole through in more ways than one! SHOOTS
Try to create excitement about an unusual plant for Venus? FLYTRAP
Wavers when you urge to turn the lights out STAGGERS
With pleasure, providing the air-hole GUSTO