The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 23,875 - Oct 16 2002

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A list prepared by fellow displaying charm TALISMAN
A physician went ahead - but slowly AMBLED
A poorly-made article in Iran ABADAN
About to depart after partition CLEAVE
An attempt by painter to get fine wool ANGORA
Battered woman in German spa BASHED
Coach and family are given the boot BUSKIN
Despondent dandy with illustrious parentage BLUEBLOOD
Domestic alarm system used by old defence force HOMEGUARD
Flimsy fabric reckoned to have been ripped LACERATED
Hardly the undergarment for President Roosevelt! TEDDY
Imagine having 500+500 pages! DREAM
Left a young animal to drink LAPUP
Marine jobber has two lots of cards DECKHAND
Mark is told to invest German capital BADGE
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Medicine taken by churchman around teatime CURATIVE
Money always gives one purchasing power LEVER
MP reveals Labour farming policy REDCAP
Mum is retiring before pre-Easter period SILENT
Outwitted the finest newspaper's chief BESTED
Panic about the copperhead is rare SCARCE
Plain-spoken, but not sharp BLUNT
Proceed from Tobago onward to Trinidad GOON
Security for Fleming's hero BOND
Spanish uncle in south-western county displays piety DEVOTION
Students sit it in the afternoon EXAM
Understand it's time to get a hairpiece TWIG
Unusually scared of trees CEDARS
West African gourmand subject to experiments GUINEAPIG
Youth leader meets prior every twelvemonth YEARLY