The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,051 - May 10 2003

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A pair performing need protection APRON
Banish from island, say EXILE
Beats dust out of chemoreceptors! TASTEBUDS
Clear I have included time to be sorrowful PLAINTIVE
Cockney newsman carried a gun EASTEND
Come out on top as a result OUTCOME
Dam'd uncanny WEIRD
Dare to raise objection CHALLENGE
Dressmaker overdrawn during rough times MODISTE
False Shakespearean nom de plume PSEUDONYM
Game in which one can hardly hear what is said in a foreign language CHINESEWHISPERS
I am battered when confined IMPOUNDED
I incited a bent authority on food DIETICIAN
It is not true I nearly started to get up late LIEIN
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Kitty to raise trophy JACKPOT
Legacy women tend to convert ENDOWMENT
Month at university allowed to be shortened a number of times OCTUPLE
Old jets somehow roughly made their way through! JOSTLED
One cannot go straight up it SPIRALSTAIRCASE
One is mistaken in this ERROR
Scottish remark about native pigment OCHRE
Some proposal voiced about discharge of fire SALVO
Tea provided sustenance around fellow who teased CHAFFED
Tree liana winding round in this manner AILANTHUS
Try a hard shell TESTA
Uncovered single ruinous excesses Overindulgences
Welsh clothier? DRESSER
Yankee Doodle had something to be proud of Featherinhiscap