The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 25,596 - Apr 21 2008

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Bachelor taking the plunge BATHE
Barely deserved JUST
Begin to explain what I did at the restaurant INITIATE
Bound to procure release of prisoner SPRING
Casual observer turned out to be a Serb spy PASSERBY
Chief part of the foot ARCH
Deposited on the shore - or on the rocks WASHEDUP
Earl created king LEAR
Elaborate point to make a speech about ORNATE
Give up playing chess RESIGN
Gong brings many in to dinner, for example MEDAL
Look for quiet in a religious order ASPECT
Moving a resolution MOTION
Neglect nothing on a job OMISSION
Old gasbags? AIRSHIPS
One in a car club DRIVER
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Order whisky straight - it goes to the head NEATNESS
Plastered and stoned PEBBLEDASHED
Prompt and quiet staff PROD
Re-heated food in the mess HASH
Scene of military operations? Armyhospital
Sea passages GANGWAYS
See you get five to one each way VIEW
Several rooms with one key? Stupid! DENSE
Shoemaking tools HOES
Shy, I left office job FLING
Sporting denims - alibis not acceptable in court INADMISSIBLE
The country's top people emerging from Heathrow? LANDEDGENTRY
They are engaged in making machines work COGS
Throw out bread that's hard OBDURATE
Western has baddies and revolvers WHEELS
Worker to snoop about the butler's domain PANTRY