The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,795 - Sep 27 2005

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About time head of state shuts up CAGES
Appreciation of Greek school of thought, we hear GRATITUDE
Bank's backing electronic payment? Say again REITERATE
Big in Tokyo? Be serious! OBESE
Blasted slugs coming back! RICOCHETS
Cent remains next to note in here CASHREGISTER
Conservative member's ascent CLIMB
English bishop has zero resistance for sin ERROR
First bars of cast iron holding temperature INTRO
For police state, dispatch riot formation DICTATORSHIP
Get up too sharply? OVERDRESS
Greet with nice fresh bubbly ENERGETIC
He visits places, say, always ancient SIGHTSEER
Independent magazine with eye-opening picture IMAGE
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Left-wingers wrong returning socialist leader TROTS
Mad about a politician going berserk RAMPAGING
Pickled with brine I eat nuts INEBRIATE
Puff with energy before exercise is practised ADEPT
Quack heard in the sky? FLYINGDOCTOR
Renouncing weapons and winning DISARMING
Ruin kept up by gallery DEVASTATE
Shape coming from grotto around end of December CARVE
Specious beliefs end in disaster INDEFENSIBLE
Stagger back carrying volume in bar LEVER
Start of wrinkles - bad sign, possibly, for them WOMEN
Stress is less taking train, perhaps UNDERLINE
Studied bookworm, say, holding page by journalist INSPECTED
Tall object which enclosed Rapunzel initially TOWER