The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,495 - Aug 2 2009

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Achieve as a head, given right start REACH
Activity in court to suppress criminal schemes SQUASHRACKETS
Argue, or give in SUBMIT
Awful hassle with food, such as pork pies FALSEHOODS
Brought round organ used in act DELIVERED
Composer going into past without fear BRAVELY
Distort, using emphasis in wrong way MISSHAPE
Dreadful event, when taken in stride, transformed DISASTER
Entrepreneur I stone CAPITALIST
Expresses run in certain periods PHRASES
Fleece, as noun or verb SKIN
Going to pieces after red card � tragic HEARTBREAKING
Indication of two wines having little in common PORTENT
Inspection that's repeated, we hear, for European bank draft CHECK
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Island in English Channel? Just the opposite -- it's Scottish SKYE
Lively dance disheartened Moses, in part CHARLESTON
Lose temper about bill, in public OVERREACT
Man promises to pay corrupt cleric, in situation going from bad to worse VICIOUSCIRCLE
Maneater producing irritation between partners SIREN
Manipulative type who could make tune go wrong? It's hard to say TONGUETWISTER
Men replacing us before end of month getting increase AUGMENT
Navigational guide read, lost at sea LODESTAR
One may help police in area, in a last resort ALSATIAN
Road that is hidden by wild trees SIDESTREET
Using natural energy, fly across line SOLAR
Weapon used in Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, originally COSH
Who, for example, is to cook? DOCTOR
Work available in bookshop, usually OPUS