The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,204 - Sep 21 2003

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Achieve a decisive victory for the party THRASH
All drink? Almost all TOTAL
An earthquake by mid-March or sooner RATHER
For days off, you require authorisation LEAVE
For information, go to the social elite GENTRY
Getting a father to help, one's sorry to say AFRAID
Give medical assistance to first, amid the misery DISTRESS
Go on and on extracting? NEVERSTOP
Good service at teatime BONECHINA
Grant it's not as nice as a private room AWARD
Had been providing, from the rain, a little shelter WERE
Have come back to call for again RECOLLECT
He's really bad if a doctor's brought into the home DEMON
Is it not happy as a lark? BLUEBIRD
Met outside 'The Headless Man', as planned MEANT
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Only thing the hungry burglar was interested in? MEATSAFE
Person we've all come to see jump and possibly run STARTURN
Seem likely to fall for the rag-and-bone man TOTTER
Some of the peasants are in sects! ANTS
Sound that will disturb the calm RATTLE
Take-home pay! RANSOM
These ordered a Sunday paper SHEETS
They hold - or that's what they think! THEORY
Too popular an artist's model to be in the red? OVERDRAWN
Unhappy to be trailing in the game DOWN
Used up, as it happened WENTON
Waited on, though very tired FAGGED
Went off, as the revolver did TURNED
What the nut consulted the chiropodist about? ACORN
What you have to do to get a title? DEED