The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 25,498 - Dec 28 2007

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Band required for the match WEDDINGRING
Bit of a victim - is under 19 SCALP
Boycott may have put his foot in it! Cricketboot
Confidence the man's shown outside work HOPE
Disparaging remark comes from yobs lurking SLUR
Drink and food, good swallowed material GINGHAM
Each April go around a group of islands ARCHIPELAGO
Female left male FRED
Grass is criminal BENT
Individual will catch cold no longer ONCE
Just like the BBC ABBREVIATED
Leaked items of news? One's respect takes a knock Opensecrets
Long poem coming through the post EPOS
Man about to enter coach, old vehicle being disposed off TRADEIN
Meat can go in this, making vegan so upset GASOVEN
One litre in the stomach produces a bad feeling GUILT
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Prom's number one conductor engenders gossip PRATTLE
Protect the woman with inner passion SHEATHE
Put back in control, having faltered REINSTALLED
Put down face up LAID
Report of leading Arab at university creates disturbance SHAKEUP
Saddam was such a card! ACEOFSPADES
Settles quietly, then suffers irritation PITCHES
Shout from rower falling under river ROAR
Show fibre HAIR
Skilled President left to get stuck in ABLE
Sort of appeal associated with strange old city SARUM
Sweet animal artist's captured CARAMEL
There will be refusal from Paris before long ANON
Tough guy not right for the pulpit AMBO
Vehicle track man's found in the mountains Carpathians
Weapon from Cuba dumped in narrow street LANCE