The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 26,997 - Oct 15 2012

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Clues Answers
A girl is after one, right? IRIS
A money-making contact MIDASTOUCH
A substitute for healing, perhaps LOCUM
African menagerie's toilet, say? ZULU
Clean motor off to get set for a rally? MONTECARLO
Cut Sophia Loren's initials on a tree SLASH
Exhaust advice on employment of umbrellas USEUP
Gold glow of chestnut AUBURN
Handy place for a painter to mix his colours PALETTE
I tell tutor about one spreading rubbish LITTERLOUT
It produces high sound if turned up HIFI
It's more fun tussling in adversity MISFORTUNE
Just happened to be wicked BEFELL
Let us admit becoming excited STIMULATED
Make an impression as an artist ETCH
Many wager on the return of this ship SLOOP
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Methods intended to avoid betting slips? SYSTEMS
Money box of very poor quality? TINPOT
Note the amphibian is adroit DEFT
Office workers go to a Scottish island STAFFA
Old Spanish coin about a pound REAL
One's young and in form LEVERET
Pan, you sound unusually silent UTENSIL
Party rising in power in old Scandinavia ODIN
Regular habits and duties CUSTOMS
Return to a fairground attraction? SWITCHBACK
Rude and very Scottish sort of hut UNCOUTH
Some favour Dutch as a language URDU
The easiest dance to learn? ONESTEP
The greatest amount of pride? LIONSSHARE
The tears we shed for a loved one SWEETHEART
Tragically be match for a Shakespearean hero MACBETH