The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,003 - Mar 15 2003

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Call up after way's sadly inadequate PATHETIC
Car I safely repaired in period ending 5 April FISCALYEAR
Concerning credit, for which you don't yet have to pay ONAPPROVAL
Contest that sounds like it might be the decider at Wimbledon SETTO
Cracovienne, a dance that involves a group of nine ENNEAD
Did he play with characters of genuine class? ALECGUINNESS
Extremely tricky one mostly controlling company? TYCOON
Has he quietly stashed away ecstasy, cannabis? HASHEESH
He's base and a bit low! HEEL
I do start to talk about one Dostoyevsky character IDIOT
I open aorta - burst without a major...! OPERATION
I'm that covered in scars - from these? SCIMITARS
Implement used by farmer to measure up group of stars DRAYPLOUGH
Inch of advantage EDGE
It's a bubbly! ASTI
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Making 'esquire' into 'squire' - his 'e' gets lost in an afterthought APHESIS
One of the 14 - from pub round about CINNA
One of the 14 - ie stubborn, half-hearted, eccentric TREBONIUS
One of the 14 about ship is embracing you audibly CASSIUS
One of the 14 met us about an old measure METELLUS
One of the 14, as depicted in small volume by Academician CASCA
One of the 14, no end of a beast to us BRUTUS
One of the 14, unserviceable after the first of the last month DECIUS
Only half of ability consists of chap's charms TALISMANS
Part of storm depicted by artist in Fall? RAINDROP
SECOND PART OF 1 ACROSS OFMARCH
Such as angler might catch with a dragonfly? DAMSELFISH
Swindles by eg Hook mostly, or Smee initially - they plot together! CONSPIRATORS
What you might do to 'Showboat', or 'Othello'? MOOR
When brutally he's rid them of a Caesar? THEIDES