The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,165 - Dec 22 2002

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A light 'Could be better' FAIR
As you know, was to come round and comes round WAKENS
Came out in the garden and ran about again FLOWERED
Disturbance I go off about RIOT
Doesn't go through the items in the girl's wardrobe SKIRTS
Don't leave out, as a rule, the tie-breaker REIGNITE
Either change over to or stick SWITCH
Either pickled or cooked STEWED
Exchanged for traffic and noise TRADEDIN
Gun stuck in the head, frantic, lost no time HASTENED
Had concealed, time and again, one's dislike of HATRED
Irritation you say the vet can treat PEKE
Left to last, I'm sad, worried and gloomy DISMAL
Like the sky when the weather's heavy? LEADEN
Most disturbed by the line shot about it HARROWED
Outburst that's the result of irritation SNEEZE
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Over the setting for the ring, is painstaking THOROUGH
Plus there's an N in 'agreement' ASSENT
Reminder to myself repeatedly not to worry MEMENTO
Rough, rough venue at Nunhead UNEVEN
Saying nothing about the French from that day on SILENCE
Shows disgust at the kickbacks RECOILS
Sit on the work counter OPPOSE
Such a person as one turns out to be EVICTOR
The finest possible head master: that's obvious MANIFEST
The higher the better SUPERIOR
The top man has been given notice HEAD
They're not holders, they're dispensers DROPPERS
Was moved by the bandage SWATHE
Whatever happens, the die is cast by dusk EVENTIDE
While I get upset by insects TERMITES
Why father rushed round to take one to a psychiatrist? PARANOIA