The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 23,617 - Dec 18 2001

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A large number of novelty hand-outs THOUSAND
Act amusingly with retiring pack BEDROLL
Allowed into course about halfway through - it's a gamble ROULETTE
Fashionable? It's a hit song! ALAMODE
Finds feet somehow, given support STIFFENED
Having to admit serving alphabet soup was a mistake? EATINGONESWORDS
Judge badly, having another drink REFILL
Kilometre finally superior to English alternative, for Frenchman EMILE
Mess around, having to employ learner inside TOUSLE
Minister gets promissory notes at second hand VICARIOUS
Nice clean beach one flies over BLUEFLAG
Not still agitated? RESTLESS
On the surface, such words may appear out of place GRAFFITI
One who takes ermine TRAPPER
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One's eaten everything, and drunk more vino OMNIVORE
Plea to give English a good time in New York ENTREATY
Pornography used in foundation course? HARDCORE
Pudding is tiny, in a way SWEET
Right to go aboard ship with banner STREAMER
Run about wildly, not in regular time RUBATO
Rung to be heard, it's plain STEPPE
Socialist: Foot's one, in general LEFTIE
Subcontinental mountain - I drop back in ascent BENGALI
Top universities in merger OXBRIDGE
Very warm current river flows into TROPICAL
Woodman in favour of rounding up steer FORESTER
Young girl once, a little fly DAMSEL