The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,661 - Apr 23 2005

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Bard found film on river POET
Book an exceptional quintet for the author NABOKOV
Chester had real trouble with Irish statesman DEVALERA
County girl established routine GALWAY
Delivery date BIRTHDAY
Do record one in either end of Hunstanton finding sea-mammal DOLPHIN
Dramatist to brandish weapon as reported SHAKESPEARE
Fakir overlooked part of city KIROV
Grab some grains first for use on cushion SANDBAG
Have curtailed officer commanding destruction HAVOC
Heathen admits to being a procrastinator IDOLATER
It does not continue after midnight tonight TODAY
Knight takes very long time embracing lady AGNES
Lady be on board in other words BESSIE
Liberal member entered branch LIMB
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More, almost 99, with eight more, say, to disentangle EXTRICATE
Nonagenarian's first 21? NINETIETH
Officer became PM CHAMBERLAIN
One or two ladies ELIZABETH
Order, say getting on top of a Greek character OMEGA
Part of speech by a man using identical words VERBATIM
Performed each dive acrobatically ACHIEVED
Plant developed in slum, say ALYSSUM
PM leaving new department talked in a relaxed way NATTERED
Singular quantity of parchment from the Dead Sea? SCROLL
Sly drone aggravated old painter REYNOLDS
Taken in by consumers EATEN
The way Edwin included gold that had been put aside STORED
Three-quarters of learned people took lines from books LITERARY
Wheeled city seat BATHCHAIR