The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 23,704 - Mar 30 2002

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...three that row in Oxford primarily TRIO
Beginning nice pint one's ordered INCIPIENT
Cherished fragment SHRED
Clever donkey's cry BRAY
Clothes to boast about GARB
Cry of pain when losing a bit of composure in bed OUCH
Detective sticks to house at start of evening GUMSHOE
Disturbed that other lion not far behind HOTONTHETRAIL
Doomed, lost consciousness FATED
eg Eight rowers etc tote around... OCTETTE
Electrical phenomena around poles or in occult emanations AURORAS
Excavating Chinese pottery MING
Falls over artist once more outside NIAGARA
Flight I board to attract attention STAIR
Flowers he'll see first outside are initially blue HAREBELLS
Gently strokes on colours PATS
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Guarantees cushy jobs SECURES
Here's a plant, see, growing wild out East! ELEPHANTSEARS
Lean forward in keenness to operate STOOP
Lights losing source of current AMPS
Likely to fix market SETFAIR
Makes a note of disreputable bars JOTS
Mature lover losing head with fellow in enclosure COMEOFAGE
One who brings bad luck on entering uplifting pilgrimage JONAH
Peccadillo - peculiar, we hear, in ecclesiastical council SYNOD
Putting wrong interpretation on string music maybe? MISCONSTRUING
Quarrelled as I'd got up with desire to follow DISAGREED
Row in place of Porgy! CATFISH
Rowing coach's instruction at start of Oxbridge do? INOUT
Saint with a besetting sin SWITHIN
She twice pressed around women like Chloe SHEPHERDESSES
Try to write a letter, yes? ESSAY