The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,158 - Nov 3 2002

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A depression in the building trade RECESS
About the ring: to begin with, it could be gold ORE
Amid the uproar, said to treat with contempt DISDAIN
Area that has dry, high ground SECTOR
Betting one's earnings by phone WAGERING
Catch up, given time TEN
Contrite, I step outside RUING
Copy found in some bank PARAPET
Don't allow to give money to a local worker BARTENDER
Embarrassed, one was changed again REDONE
Figure the unknown person apprehended is the killer STRANGLER
From back copies, tear out one by one SEPARATE
Gazed back again into the deep PEERED
Guarantee that has most of the chaps convinced ENSURE
Having a bash at, but making a fuss ADO
Having the knack of lifting it: an idiosyncrasy TRAIT
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In how long do the toys wear out? TWOYEARS
Is a royal pain about, when you damage the car PRANG
It accommodates one fish at a time GARAGE
Leaving no alternative but to be pleasant OBLIGING
Mistyped the letter U in 'substitute' DEPUTY
Named the man I tangled with in a famous case NOMINATED
Pudding for a cop, at about one, turning up TAPIOCA
Routine in a lab, upsetting: it's cruel BRUTAL
Said one didn't intend to run DECLARED
She eats vegetarian food and bread, you say DOE
Since the order has come round to cut down DECREASE
Something you have to reckon with, on country walks? ADDER
Studied for the test when I got back home EXAMINED
The hoop can't go on: wrong shape OCTAGON
The only club, perhaps, one has not arranged to join SINGLETON
Told to give water to the pet animals REINDEER