The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,273 - Jan 16 2005

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Afraid, having a head cold, we do go on terribly COWED
Back 'Hard drinker'? Balderdash TOSH
Buzz off and play with your drum! BEATIT
Capital punishment FINE
Components of the mechanical flying bird? WINGNUTS
Cut about a foot round PARED
Determined, in a nitwit, to find good qualities ASSETS
Eat out of house and home PICNIC
Engages in a battle of wits to capture the point WAGES
Figure again in the case THREE
Forbidding to get ahead or behind ASTERN
Give Pete a frenzied call about, spreading the gossip REPEATING
Go off, darn it! REPAIR
Good swimmer, a playboy, who came to a bad end DRAKE
He dictates what the cleaning fluid should do DESPOT
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How you smiled at the hoary old joke? FROSTILY
Identified as having gone along with TAGGED
It's left and the various heirs are out to enjoy it RELISH
Later, when we're forced to get to the point NEWER
Learn the hard way one pulls it upwards SWOT
Looking forward to battle, Rose is in training FORESIGHT
No salesman stays in NOTOUT
Pretty girl outside, wicked inside: diabolical DEVILISH
Realise the prison reform of his has gone through CASHIN
Say nothing, nothing, nothing. Just go away! SHOO
Seems as though one favours LOOKSLIKE
Tickets for parking the chumps got PASSES
Unhappy with one's image, perhaps CAMERASHY
Watched one rewriting the poetry in it OVERSEEN
With pale blue edging, smart SWANKY