The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,147 - Aug 18 2002

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A little swallow returning from somewhere in Italy PISA
Adds up the number of drinks TOTS
Boyfriend for that Cupid, we're told, has BEAU
Career you damage TEAR
Dress up to try to create an impression GARB
Dressed to take the dog out on return GOTUP
Drink the weary traveller likes to come home to PORT
Going off about the undisciplined tot, contact ROTTING
Got caught in, turning to leave quietly TRAPPED
Having stepped on a stick, tend to wobble about TRODDEN
I took the set and got the breaks, for a change INSTEAD
Is a photographic memory needed to get it? MENTALPICTURE
It's old hat about America being a source of pollution EXHAUST
Mean to say it will take a long time AVERAGE
Net here to protect the plants HERBAGE
Only Capone could have had it as a car registration! ALONE
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Paper round he resolved to get SHEET
Power strike CLOUT
Progress? Leave over! BREAKTHROUGH
Reveller leaving the pub with his dog? LURCHER
Rose and Richard, Eric's brother? RAMBLER
Saw the animal, a horse, turning round EPIGRAM
Short for a woman GINA
Smash that's somehow returned SHATTER
Snarls 'Disgusting drink!' FOULSUP
They help keep down correspondence PAPERWEIGHTS
They're seen on racecourses or working in china shops SELLINGPLATES
Turn a couple of taps on in the vegetable garden SPINACH
Turn round the ring for exhibition at the jeweller's OPAL
Useful piece of advice you got at the kennels? POINTER
When you pull the blinds down, it's bliss! DELIGHT
Where to buy something just for a lark? FUNFAIR