The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,339 - Jul 30 2006

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'Pizazz' is a long shot DRIVE
...jumping now and again up on the master OWNER
A throwback, he is terribly rebellious BOLSHIE
And not one is in lower case NEITHER
Barking, took off outside... SKINNED
Bird with a bit of a bump on its tail PARTRIDGE
Break it during a drunken spree RESPITE
Dog straying half a mile, about, from home LODGE
Greet effusively, taking to house from train CORTEGE
Hard to move, is rooted to the ground HEDGE
Having taken on in, due to training had beaten OUTDONE
He wrote half the series about American prisons SPENSER
Left one ham sandwich outside the shaft MANHOLE
Like the tin a tipsy-cake's baked in? WELLOILED
Means the vacancy has been filled, confound it! DARN
Moderates, as is one's wont, changing key in TONESDOWN
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On the booze, going round without cronies ALONE
Over the side LEFT
Piece of soap EPISODE
Put the man through to the paper SHEET
Seeing that one's giving a commentary on OBSERVING
Shouts out names CALLS
Sign there's a tot on the way PLUS
Spurts and catches up: has gone on the outside HASTENS
The early morning rush DAWNATTACK
The food of love DUCK
Took to be absent-minded ABSTRACTED
Very good to help out: there's nothing in it for TOPHOLE
Waded out with a number: very heavy DEADWEIGHT
What the money order shows? TIDYSUM
Wild threats to kidnap a little darling SWEETHEART
Woman's retired and that's in our favour ASSET