The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 25,317 - May 30 2007

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Clues Answers
... and theatre ready for expectation of something to come? STAGESET
A graduate begins calculus on university's calculator ABACUS
According to ranking, hire, we hear, shrewd man Hierarchal
Are kids those who saunter? TODDLERS
Bergamot toilet water produces some essential oil OTTO
Book concludes the strong feeling of a fanatic ZEALOT
Clone me a breed of lizard Cameleon
Colonize around a place in, say, Washington SEATTLE
Cryptic clues to a meeting of the lips OSCULATE
Declare some of the French left having eaten one cake ECLAIR
Deny that over four are not positive NEGATIVE
Desmond, looking back, never accepted being ridiculed SNEERED
ET, for instance, has a note on disaffection ALIENATION
Even with scores in a mess, obtain the outline plans SCENARIOS
Extreme way to leave the trenches OVERTHETOP
Clues Answers
First course, for Stratford players in box office hit, lacks original ingredients BORSCHT
Go for it in unrestrained fashion LETLOOSE
Land alternative for this vehicle to work on TRACTOR
Meddle about with the unrefined manners of Mrs Grundy PRUDERY
Motion picture regulated by the cinema scenery... FILMSET
Plunder the castle ROOK
Realism? Means-test odd clothing items RAIMENTS
Smallest dress size mother left behind MINIMAL
Soaring right over a fortified location for troops GARRISON
Sour beer or a lager perhaps ALEGAR
Taint iron chemically by treatment with acid Nitration
To outshine at the back of the theatre UPSTAGE
Touched by a material thing FELT
Tranquil midshipman EASY
Understanding 'the knowledge' PERCEPTION