The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,189 - Oct 18 2003

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Absorb information as its e-mail went astray ASSIMILATE
Bird of prey hit the hill RAPTOR
Claim tin-openers had been damaged PRETENSION
Cocked a snook in cotton fabric NAINSOOK
Day-labourer exercises on completion PEON
Declare a binding undertaking AVOW
Doubt Irish analysis IRRESOLUTION
Drinker, motorist perhaps accepted nothing CAROUSER
Droop over a story SAGA
Fighting costs? PRICEWAR
Firm as model gets protection from maritime force COASTGUARD
Go on after all the others LAST
He's no gentleman that one! He's a Muslim magistrate CADI
Hempen matting also on display TATTOO
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It turns on current power WATERWHEEL
It's barely entertaining STRIPTEASE
Like a marathon competitor ultimately INTHELONGRUN
Little George is in charge of putting the diagram in. It concerns the science of the earth's surface Geographic
Medico leaves capital boat SCOW
Number one specialist EGOIST
Original plot GARDENOFEDEN
Passenger vehicle not quite a cargo-boat TRAM
Relative tries badly after removing pests STEPSISTER
Rocking and rolling STAGGERING
Rough sort of path from the sound of it COARSE
Shower? DEMONSTRATOR
Stagger in before eleven o'clock REEL
Unchosen variety that is unrivalled NONESUCH