The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,155 - Oct 13 2002

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By also turning in the spoils BOOTY
Centres round the time share arrangements HEARTS
Decide your present state could be improved upon EMIGRATE
Diminish when you accede to the rise? LETUP
Figure among the fellows who are tops in their fields CHAMPS
Fit into that upside-down, they tell you NOTIFY
Forces up values, we're told PRISES
Get blazing and shoot, in a fight SETFIRETO
He advises the chaps to start running MENTOR
Improve one's disposition REARRANGE
Inordinately, over and over again TOOTOO
Is mad about getting left behind - most unhappy DISMAL
It looks decorative and stops animals straying AGATE
Never mind. Just be a good dog among the sheep DONTWORRY
Nonsense! Say nothing to the head TOSH
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Not working for spring FREE
Nothing in the beater shows craft CANOE
Only bring about when you have good reason to JUSTCAUSE
Outsmarts me in, but hesitates to say so STAMMERS
Realise from his spell anew in prison CASHIN
Said to get hold of witnesses SEES
Same recalcitrant boy I detained, due to complaints MALADIES
Set out in the shade, had a snooze RESTED
Something to keep the spare tyre in? CORSET
Song about a little creature meek and timid SHANTY
Take heart. With two days will be within distance MIDDLE
The best-liked are taken back stage STEP
They'd make the most of an hour in your wardrobe! MOTHS
What I wear when I'm understudy DENIM
Who arranged the trips round and how long they took? TWOHOURS