The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,417 - Feb 3 2008

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Be entitled to take back food given to? DESERVE
Bear up, though there's a depression on the way STRUT
Considers carefully as one delivers to TURNSOVER
Cut a figure in the band SLASH
Dead right - it's more recent LATER
Either puts a sauce on or curries DRESSES
Fields balls SPHERES
Find, in the index, ''Love bird'' ROOSTER
Get all steamed up when you cook STEW
Go back the other way round REVERSE
How one sallied, in the company of, immediately FORTHWITH
I'm having them changed, being misnomers, to ''lectures'' SERMONS
Keep, to look at OBSERVE
Laughing at ''Isn't troubled by desires'' INSTITCHES
Leave in the break SPLIT
Lift to reveal the jointed bit SNAFFLE
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Love child that has the heirs worried CHERISH
Makes sure you get a grasp of, verbally SEES
Mark turns on the torch - or off NOTCH
Miss the overture PASS
Pad a piece of writing, say PUTINWORDS
Picture at home with the radio on INSET
Properly repaired at last? That's rich! WELLHEELED
Quirk of fate taking a crashed flier to heaven AFTERLIFE
Run water for the plant SPEEDWELL
Says I'm boggling at the figure, which is shocking DISMAYS
She's caught in the beam SHINE
Take home when you get engaged EARN
Taking longest for the plumber to get to DEEPEST
Tunnel through the potentially nicest part SECTION
Who volunteered to write a letter? THETA
Will it squeal if you step on it? GRASSSNAKE