The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,282 - Mar 20 2005

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A dog given fish to eat - head and tail only BASSET
Allowed back in, remain dignified STATELY
Are we prepared to sit in for, so to speak? ASITWERE
Chooses - comes down heavily for PLUMPS
Harbouring misgivings? That's rather unlikely DOUBTFUL
Having a thing about, refuse to talk to any more HANGUP
Having checked in, rush round REINED
Having had a fitful sleep, round about ten, drives off EXPELS
He got the doctor in again ANDREW
In a convoluted plot, one's the potential killer PISTOL
Loses one's temper when the rest, running, catch up ERUPTS
Might conceal a crack, sire MAJESTY
Near the average MEAN
Plant an accountant in a federal US bureau ACACIA
Preserve an early memory from infancy? BOTTLE
Rock like mad, capsizing STUN
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Roughly tear up over half to stuff in the hole APERTURE
Size up the paper roughly as I riffle through it APPRAISE
Springs the other way and fools SAPS
Step right back inside STRIDE
Tear unceremoniously in, then, and try to frighten THREATEN
The animal, stake to a pole, foolishly ANTELOPE
The cover charge was most unpopular LOATHED
The dried fish he asked for was a fried dish SPOONER
The pretty girl brought in a red rose REBELLED
This time, gets cross with one ELEVEN
To put the icing on the cake, a great figure CAPITALL
Try to eradicate smears from the fabric GOSSAMER
Upset the dessert? TURNOVER
What the gardener did with his trophy POTPLANT
Wholly, at that point, compos mentis ALLTHERE
You have no right to go in there THEE