The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 23,753 - May 27 2002

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A cop gets a bewildered fall guy SCAPEGOAT
All right - just FAIR
Bank over a runway at first? Not often RARELY
Brightly coloured car inside, being recovered RECOUPED
Broadcast skill needed by the RAF AIRCRAFT
Choose prison - we hear it's a cinch PICNIC
Chop bones DICE
Clergyman, with a comedian, outside CHAPLAIN
Curse a time spent in old hospital OATH
Customer's first request for a quantity of ale CASK
Cut, deal, and what's left? SAWDUST
Different ways to find amusements Diversions
Dismiss soldiers - brigadiers of a kind FIREMEN
Fed-up with newspapers, indeed DEPRESSED
Fleece the boss? He hasn't got much up top! SKINHEAD
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Grasses that can smell SNOUTS
Help a relative, protected by position ASSISTANCE
Letters from personalities CHARACTERS
Little leak that might fool the French TRICKLE
Long-sighted observers TELESCOPES
Mean to sound angry and suspicious beyond reason PARANOID
Medical man ate starter of tuna fish STURGEON
Not swayed by a French proposal to start disarming UNMOVED
Partly cover finished drink OVERLAP
Plain fish eating doctor TUNDRA
Proceed with loan ADVANCE
Shades of cheerful vivacity SPIRITS
Sybil's husband and one accountant in church BASILICA
Transfer data from county - and charge for it DOWNLOAD
Writer and worker split by first double hanging PENDANT