The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 23,606 - Dec 5 2001

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A classic Midlands city DERBY
A musician could be prevaricating PLAYINGFORTIME
A priest with sex-appeal becomes a demon AFRIT
About to use bike to save resources RECYCLE
Bill gets left in centre of boat CORACLE
Celebrity set back from the beginning STARTUP
Comic appears in a suit CARD
Concerning chaste people in mainland Europe OntheContinent
Couple's favourite turned up for the dance TWOSTEP
Declined to see sporting arbiter exploited REFUSED
Diabolic man and I have intelligence HEINOUS
Dress on time? Rubbish! GARBAGE
Drop in to deliver a batter pudding POPOVER
Fantastic invention by FBI agents during attack FIGMENT
Gear left in Aussie mate's housing CLOBBER
Hound master of unyielding nature MASTIFF
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In Amalfi local people sell pastry FILO
It protects locks from the rain HAIRNET
Mean to hold on, now or very soon TONIGHT
Middleman means to award officer status to spy COMMISSIONAGENT
Ohio will make donations for pointed window OGIVE
One knight returned to show the flag IRIS
Plans to get the atlas on the table MAPSOUT
Rum fare for an infant BABA
Salt should restore one to health CURE
Select it for breaking up the soil PICK
Stop to get a house in Washington WHOA
The liturgy must be utterly correct RITE
Tropical plant depicted by fine artist OKRA
Violet and Virginia take oral examination VIVA
What a boxer needs, a spouse may not SPARRINGPARTNER
Writing endlessly to get extra shares SCRIP