The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 23,990 - Feb 28 2003

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A beast with some complaint making a charge ASSAILING
A game six-footer CRICKET
A royal lady among many featured in the newspapers PRINCESS
An Irish howler! BANSHEE
Appeared hurt after the campaign, but sang WARBLED
Bearing blossom in March or April EASTER
Black's behind time, so may be eliminated ERASABLE
Break concerning the engineer on a sea-going vessel RECESS
Caught without cash, sounded far from happy SNARLED
Fancy cereal kept under cover CAPRICE
Flatterers popular with fault-finding folk Incensors
Fly endlessly with a top man going to pieces FLAKING
Get warm again here perhaps, returning thanks REHEAT
Gives a smooth finish to sound building material SANDSTONE
Grandee's letters fomenting disorder DERANGE
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Hype for a hearing device that won't help anyone's hearing! EARPLUG
Indicate revised figure all the same IDENTICAL
It's a party - show a bit of leg, understand? SHINDIG
Live and die in old-time subservience OBEDIENCE
One page is being rewritten in this secret work ESPIONAGE
Quiet girl on the river SHANNON
Respect as of right always in French church REVERENCE
Settles for slight adjustment LIGHTS
Ship club many a boy will join IRONCLAD
The hour for making that last bid ELEVENTH
The objective of the shy COCONUT
The vocalist can use the new version CHANTEUSE
The way article should be put into a waste-receptacle - fast ABSTAIN
This will ensure one doesn't get needled! THIMBLE
Took advantage of people's generosity and cleaned up SPONGED