The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 23,731 - May 1 2002

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A fat ram, for instance BUTTER
A loose woman in the family AUNTIE
A spirited community? Anything but! GHOSTTOWN
A university chap accommodates many by offering increase AUGMENT
Agent isn't meaning to decorate again REPAINT
Anything but prosaic? INVERSE
Association that is in the money TIEIN
Bachelor has to proceed by degrees GRADUATE
Chatter quietly and chatter on PRATTLE
Church requires examination of its music CHORAL
Cretan wandered round in a daze TRANCE
Explain precisely why coppers are involved in betrayal SPELLOUT
Failure to feature appeal by embassy OMISSION
Fur acquired from sale in Belgium SABLE
Grieve to have restaurant meal without the beloved EATONESHEARTOUT
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It makes the motorist put his foot down THROTTLE
Jack and Peter produced a preservative SALTPETRE
Lure army reservists back to open ground ATTRACT
Nit-picker gets judo expert in a huff PEDANT
Not the in-crowd, for a start OUTSET
One who drinks with a meal SUPPER
Patience gets no treacle pudding TOLERANCE
Secure folder used by a manicurist NAILFILE
Six points made by ascetic Jew ESSENE
Spanish title given to a count and old sculptor DONATELLO
Stay the night to finish cricket match STOPOVER
Swimming race held without a team leader NATATION
Utterly direct OUTRIGHT
Withdraw commission from money-handler CASHIER