The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 9 - Dec 22 2008

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Beginning to fix up home after end of tornado ORIGIN
Charge way over the odds for wool FLEECE
Dance in musical, topless RIGADOON
Editor, primarily for that reason, has journalists in for coffee ESPRESSO
Fairy ring behind imp TINKERBELL
Genuine regret at the end of it TRUE
Hacienda in Spain, say ESTATE
He drowned in Italy, tenor after love spurned ICARUS
Hear about object, all the rage TRENDY
Hungry? Tureen is specially prepared ESURIENT
Kidnapping head of state? Of course SNATCH
Leaves having collected duck in game QUOITS
Loaded, or otherwise, in a place of great wealth ELDORADO
Miserly person wanting inexpensive fish CHEAPSKATE
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Mislead daughter with dodge DELUDE
Monday at sea for energetic type DYNAMO
Murder in institution probed by yours truly, ahead of CID HOMICIDE
No end of prime French cheese BRIE
Petty officer material CORPORAL
Poet in pub beginning to declaim BARD
Princess taken round one Egyptian city ALEXANDRIA
Secure unstable salvage RESCUE
Support provided by defender BACK
Tense over the border? ONEDGE
Virtue? My word! GOODNESS
Walking slowly to N London station PADDINGTON
Where there's scope for a cameraman to develop? DARKROOM
Writer crossing street leading to restaurant BISTRO