The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 25,789 - Dec 2 2008

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Clues Answers
As in scare, panicky ARSENIC
Barge carrying less weight LIGHTER
Bat and bowl badly, round end of June, after start of Ashes � that makes one depressed ATALOWEBB
Battle of New Orleans SALERNO
Carriage used in taxi hire around port CABRIOLET
Climbing aid with special point PITON
Distinctive character in Macbeth? Osric? ETHOS
Dorothy's dog bites boy in Canadian city TORONTO
Eastwood film, hardly profitable one made by Hitchcock TIGHTROPE
Film company following article THEFIRM
Friend, pilot � look out for his place COCKPIT
Girl touring country, European one ROMANIA
Group playing Ireland, say ORCHESTRA
I approach home showing determination INEARNEST
Iced drink made by Aussie friend swallowing litre COBBLER
In favour of proposal suggesting publicity campaign PROMOTION
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Ladder ahead in approach RUNUP
Matching clothes in Tweedledum and Tweedledee film? TWINSET
Mexican snacks � first of them served with a lettuce TACOS
Nerdy type, unhappy attending party SADDO
One disrupting model�s composure POISE
One during French film festival shows teeth CANINES
Pepsi Cola for refreshment of bishops EPISCOPAL
Person one judge imprisoned in capital BEIJING
Playwright penning a line to a yachtsman PAINTER
President dressing in study CLINTON
Soldier pulled up in vehicle for a smoke CIGAR
Stone implement in hotel, oddly NEOLITH
Synthetic substance used in fibres industry RESIN
Tipsily tell Tony about tango and trumpeter LYTTELTON
Too early, or whatever ANDSOON
Windlass disturbed catnaps CAPSTAN