The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,996 - May 19 2006

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A crowd joining king and I for sporting party APRESSKI
Academic pair love, kiss, and join together OXBRIDGE
An Arab craft? Very much so! ANDHOW
Argument with former PM, our equivalent of Charles de Gaulle HEATHROW
Bishop takes a mineral like quartz into cathedral BASILICA
Calm down if embraced by girl MOLLIFY
Composing piece of music for particular words SETTING
Evaluate a twopenny increase APPRAISE
Favouring one kind of words for religious book PROVERBS
Greek island's streets in sound RHODES
Having caught fish, hold on tight CLING
Huge sound coming from part of London WHOPPING
In some quarters, aspiration that's relatively recent NEWISH
Involve in late changes ENTAIL
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Is it advisable for monarch to bear something like this? SHOULDER
It could be minor, yet it's clearly not! ENORMITY
It's hard covering the ground, as required by vice-captain ICECAP
Just failing to get contract that's unique ONEOFF
Needlework absorbs a little time, note CROTCHET
Original choice crucial in rough sport ICEHOCKEY
Page with original phrase, possibly PERHAPS
Provide place for a daughter at US university ADMIT
Publicly promote fruit, we hear, that's very different from peach PLUGUGLY
Purge one dreadful clue that could produce this? RIDICULE
Resolve single error in calculation FIGUREOUT
Stagger everyone in tiny island ROCKALL
This kind of treatment is off-putting AVERSIONTHERAPY