The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,385 - Jun 24 2007

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A short distance to go and the favourite's coming up STEP
Air force STRAIN
Being treated by the doctor badly? UNWELL
Best of all, not much used, as paths go UNBEATEN
Break, to make a hollow in RECESS
Congratulates oneself when one writes about in PREENS
Dope I take over to - medicine POTION
Feels it's for the best, almost PROBES
Figure, through the father's mother, it's in the blood PLASMA
Fish that's very nearly extinct? SOLE
Gardens surrounding American homes HOUSES
Help in more ways than one AIDANDABET
Hover shiftily. Are out to find what's being said OVERHEAR
I stop to delve about for, wicked though it is FIENDISH
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Is it not very bright in the kitchen? NOODLE
Learn it could hold the key to an essential part INTEGRAL
Lowering, with a support, the animal inside SCOWLING
Money, it is said, is not everything SOME
Mum apportions the vegetables SHALLOTS
Piece of paper on the cricket pitch SLIP
Salve for mine, smeared into a dressing LINIMENT
Says the deputies have nothing to conceal VOICES
Smart, ringing, solicits money from people BEINGS
There may be a rush to see its results SCREENTEST
They make a room dark and quiet, one remarks SHUTTERS
Was turned away - or made to leave SAWOFF
Yank in Europe's bewildered by the foreign language PORTUGUESE
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