The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,353 - Nov 5 2006

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Accept matters but don't wait to be fired RESIGNONESELF
At a quarter to, quiet, knock off STOP
Directly in front? Wrong! RIGHTOPPOSITE
Enjoyed oneself and was among the fastest competitors HADAGOODTIME
First to authorise INITIAL
Follow with a brush TAIL
Go down and have a little drink DROP
Having to climb up to get the boy OTTO
Home when the scoundrel dropped in VILLA
Is a biter - turn back! NIPS
Is not wrong about its being yet to come INSTORE
It's an innate quality: in other words, you can't trust him TRAITOR
It's hard to capture an escaped tiger GRANITE
Keeping in step, otherwise STORAGE
Loaf, being the boss HEAD
Nagging about one's travelling by? GOINGON
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OAP very unsure that he will give too much money OVERPAY
One scampers about, tail wagging with joy ELATION
Put it in the minced meat; I do the same IMITATE
Rushed an order through for an Italian ROMAN
Searched for and caught, embittered about SCOURED
Secure and hand round the food PASTIES
Shout 'Gate's unlocked' to a prisoner HOSTAGE
Squealed when it burst SPLIT
Standing Nina up, taking Meg out and proposing to MEANING
Take off from a temporary runway STRIP
Thinking 'The Duck and Pig Inn' bizarre OPINING
Twice she proclaims she is retiring MIMI
Very grey at fifty, having been through it GREATLY
What the diner ordered in a low voice BASS
When everybody has gone off, casing the vessel GALLEON
You and somebody else SECONDPERSON