The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 25,623 - May 22 2008

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A reason for being shipwrecked AGROUND
Alters menu and starts to get excited Transmutes
An acceptable standard - and not married! NORM
Below California, for example, people have time - in a manner of speaking UNDERSTATEMENT
Cases of free taramasalata and cheese FETA
Do they prove a case for royal residences? COURTROOMS
Doctor of French has style MODE
Educated people at home recount that single men get first-class return INTELLIGENTSIA
Former pimp gets executed ONCE
God is full of good intentions ODIN
Inclinations to cede tennis match TENDENCIES
Large tents of the highest quality TOPS
Line of least resistance past milers, perhaps SLIPSTREAM
Managed area within armed forces RAN
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Multi-talented player, single chap, noisily excluded ONEMANBAND
Noise that might point to the critical moment? SCRUNCH
Note way of attracting attention PSST
Objects to placing cake next to pies Takesexception
Petrol can be an anaesthetic GAS
Plundered mains supply means hope is not lost NILDESPERANDUM
Royal Navy, for example BLUE
Show of hesitation accepting a prize for bullfighting EAR
Sort of loaf around quietly - and get married SPLICED
Stop, disheartened, seeing western Australian resort SPA
Tax burden following strike EXCISEDUTY
The attributes of decent links PROPERTIES
The downgrading of envoys by soldiers RELEGATION
Way of approaching the last dance STEALTH