The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 25,584 - Apr 7 2008

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A busy worker sent in for a shirker, perhaps ABSENTEE
A show of spirit is difficult to forget HAUNTING
Be quick! EXIST
Congratulations on a boring job completed WELLDONE
Craft association? YACHTCLUB
Final appointment before military retirement LASTPOST
Girl working in a hairdressers' SALON
Hanky out when upset, but with a grateful expression THANKYOU
He attacked the Romans but turned tail at first ATTILA
He holds listeners in a kind of transport HEARSE
How to get browned off by doing nothing SUNBATHE
Institutions that train large groups of swimmers SCHOOLS
Introduced the new resident INSERTED
Large limousine indicating Hollywood success OSCAR
Look what verse should do SCAN
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Name for stones when placed round an entrance AGATES
Old Egyptian gambling game, it's said PHARAOH
One is often led to use it by mistake ERASER
Oral might be set for calculating power of mathematicians LOGARITHM
Our chap makes comeback in camp's series of games TOURNAMENTS
Quick way to dry a step STAIR
Region that's Spanish and American inter alia ANDALUSIA
Representation in holding company ICON
Sharp falls in sweet production? ACIDDROPS
She has no right to leave scene of Hamlet ELSIE
Shorten a river crossing? ABRIDGE
Speak evasively about private care PREVARICATE
Tell everyone girl is overweight ANNOUNCE
The sailor has to turn up a card TAROT
Writers have a small room with a key on board SCRIBES