The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 25,191 - Jan 3 2007

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As usual, coppers never appear NOCHANGE
Beating bridge champion SPANKING
Bound to be in season SPRING
Buys food , only to become immobilised Getstuck
Challenge a sprinter to get a bunch of grapes RACEME
Cheap and nasty fish is hard to find GARISH
Fine spring WELL
Guy and I go to the French capital MANILA
If you go round it, you're crazy BEND
Initially, Irish rebels make bloomers IRISES
Institution needs staff CLUB
Keep on dating, but take it easy GOSTEADY
Liberal of striking appearance HANDSOME
Local tax upset English sailors TAVERN
London's big clock is working. What a blessing! BENISON
Look like a simpleton GANDER
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Look out for second-rate pottery BEWARE
Made a gentile make jelly GELATINE
Oddly, Clive and Ron are living well INCLOVER
Owns sleigh, so gets badgered HASSLED
Party with us in Paris if famished RAVENOUS
Pete Moon composed rhapsodic music TONEPOEM
Remunerate retained staff? That's a travesty! PARODY
See a deer get away VAMOOSE
Spanish gent concealed poor Olga HIDALGO
Squabbles to get left-overs SCRAPS
Stop to get some tobacco PLUG
Strict cleric is back in diocese SEVERE
Trainee always takes time to make purchase LEVERAGE
Turn away as foreigner dined ALIENATE
Uproar when priest heads conciliation body FRACAS
Work for the party FUNCTION