The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,656 - Apr 18 2005

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A bluff retiring moralist AESOP
A novelist in conflict, we hear WAUGH
A woman cleaning fish CHAR
Abandon the rules when playing cricket? THROWOVER
About five looked really hungry STARVED
Accept a proposal in Gretna Green AGREE
Arrest in case is not ordered CESSATION
Article written about the professional stage APRON
Attractive girl often pulled at parties! CRACKER
Choice way to take sustenance ALACARTE
Duty on one type of passenger conveyance TAXI
European bar I took Alan around ALBANIAN
Fruit porter admits double parking APPLE
Half-cooked scrap of food RAREBIT
Headless reptile jumping round the Pyrenees IZARD
Ida strips a rampant evergreen ASPIDISTRA
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Independent young beef producer MAVERICK
It protects you from shock - and large fuel bills INSULATION
Leaders of newspapers EDITORIALS
Locks are the key to its existence CANAL
Moved, I re-echo the goodbye CHEERIO
Neglects desolate regions IGNORES
New act involves nude entertainment CABARET
One monster bird followed by a second COCKATRICE
Point to a jug that's not so old NEWER
Refuse to dim the lights TURNDOWN
Struck by Cupid's dart? SMITTEN
There's a singular example of these in ancient history THIS
They are the ones in suits ACES
Two names written in a foreign language RUSSIAN
Using radar, Cuba finds voracious fish BARRACUDA
Weapons that come shortly to hand? SMALLARMS