The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 25,826 - Jan 15 2009

Tired of your current crossword puzzle? Try solving our daily crossword puzzles. GO TO DAILY PUZZLES!
Clues Answers
Accommodation in apartments arranged for a ruler TSAR
Agreement by which worker supports bad spellers COVENANT
American butts? SITTINGTARGETS
Drink that gives you skill in car MARTINI
Exclamation at seeing price initially cut PHEW
Finally achieved one's status and temperament DISPOSITION
Holly and Ivy starts getting the French cross! ILEX
How to secure apartments occupied by a rugby player? PADLOCKS
Leather goods detained as a consequence ERGO
Listener in front of a church started to experience otalgia EARACHE
Mortified to see the home counties in a poor environment ABASED
Occupation that single male graduate needed to be vacant ONEMANBAND
Relaxed about having lost value to pound DOWNBEAT
Resort putting foot down on drug reform STAMPINGGROUND
Clues Answers
Run off to back eastern European ELOPE
Serious bore oddly welcomed by a few SOMBRE
Sky reportedly fine relatives WELKIN
Sportsman's bottom line - swallowing pill! FOOTBALLER
Storage for a sleeping bag? KNAPSACK
Strain on the toilet at sea? Fool AIRHEAD
Teenager gets drunk - on this? GREENTEA
The North has loads of idiots! NOODLES
There's nothing bad about this girl! OLIVE
Trained a dog to suffer humiliation DEGRADATION
Transplants obtained by bribery lead to scares GRAFTS
Trip North meant explosive competition TOURNAMENT
Uses contacts to find employment during cricket practice NETWORKS
Weave around drunken teen when menaced THREATENED