The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,144 - Aug 27 2003

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A simple manufacturer HERBALIST
Actually employed as a solicitor Inpractice
Admit it's good to let off steam GRANT
Article we sent back again ANEW
As immobile as a well-established tree ROOTEDTOTHESPOT
Batters down a barrier in Kent RAMSGATE
Complaint caused by knocking back a double spirit MURMUR
Determined to be in business FIRM
Fish served in a rich, aromatic sauce CHAR
Get in a high-speed car, however horrified AGHAST
Gong sounded by one's host EMCEE
He leaves a tin-opener and broken-down toaster TESTATOR
Heather keeps promise, despite abhorrence LOATHING
Honestly, it isn't crooked STRAIGHT
Ill fortune is maybe what he deserves BADLOT
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Induced to talk - but rather stretched DRAWNOUT
Informer has origins in the rank and file GRASSROOTS
Inscribed round a tomb finally ENGRAVED
Jack needs to become objective TARGET
Joints go to bishops' heads MITRES
Look into censure of ski event SLALOM
Mark, his ham's awful - a real mess MISHMASH
Material from which altar base is made ALABASTER
Old Catholic heartens the Spanish poet LORCA
Proposition found in many Jane Austen novel LEMMA
Race around a tree ACER
Rubber carried by a ship in French river MASSEUSE
So the sappers get a warning of course THEREFORE
This could make even stalwarts crack up LASTSTRAW