The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 23,999 - Mar 11 2003

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...before a little hermit emerges EREMITE
A built-in food-processor MOLAR
A king - dim, backward as can be MIDAS
Aptitude shown at university FACULTY
Can it show what's wrong with pets? CATSCAN
Cancel a French party UNDO
Cause of aching feet while viewing the ruins? FALLENARCHES
City is almost a mile back LIMA
Dog-food CHOW
Drop a line and hope for a response FISH
Exercise before cat returns PRESSUP
Food - bags of it! BEAN
He keeps a tight grip on his money PENNYPINCHER
He said he saw through a dark glassly SPOONER
Just William's accounts? BILLS
Learned to die? True, in one way ERUDITE
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Must be doubly active to catch bird DODO
Net I may cast whenever I like ANYTIME
Old-fashioned chief the CIA take back ARCHAIC
One of Ovid's transformations METAMORPHOSIS
Painting of old Scot you heard about PICTURE
Pal's sonnet you rewrite on impulse SPONTANEOUSLY
Praise the Archbishop... LAUD
Ready to peg out clothes - do eat anyway! CLOSETO
Refuses to talk about sea-food drink CLAMSUP
SECOND PART OF 17 DEATH
The end is nigh around the old city CLOSURE
There must be hundreds in such correspondence LETTERS
Undulating line of the river NILE
Vet teed off from boat VEDETTE
Wine I finished with a Greek character and a worker CHIANTI
Wrap up stationery? No energy! ENVELOP