The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,457 - Nov 9 2008

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Clues Answers
A cut I arranged to get on the sale AUCTION
A muted 'The man's a pest' APHIS
A plant shoot RUSH
Author making a come-back through 'Fat Cat' LEOPARD
Believe it will reduce the number of insects about SWALLOW
Bolt in a cage at the zoo WOLF
Bound to miss SKIP
Bunk and a table ROTA
Cut up, having had a duck in the game POLO
Cut with a blow CLIP
Get attached to a cat LASH
Gives the times of year on the inside DONATES
Having to return to get him OTTO
He'll do! MANOFACTION
How rings in a jewellery box were spoken of? OFFHANDEDLY
I again smear in sun cover INSURE
I had been shut in; housebound. It's horrible HIDEOUS
Clues Answers
In the East End, he had ham and cheese EDAM
Leaves out the R in 'divers' SEVERAL
Man I'll imitate when speaking? ISLE
Mention drink and there are cries of disapproval BOOS
Nearly all the usual kinds GENERA
Our entering the animal enclosure requires nerve COURAGE
Outside a house, in the picture ICON
Reversing, sees and brakes STOPS
Showing up defects in the hat STRAW
Sign on myself, taken in by OMEN
The actor's holiday retreat? SECONDHOUSE
Tries - and it works GOES
Vacillate terribly to start with and complain CAVIL
Wanting to appear as though hit by the coach STAGESTRUCK
Why, in a jiffy, you see what's going to happen? SECONDSIGHT
With difficulty, steer a vessel through the locks TRESSES
Won't open a book but it doesn't matter MAKESNOODDS