The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,219 - Jan 4 2004

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'Prohibited food for dieters' we put in groups SWEETS
Aren't putting adhesive in: that's the difference ARGUMENT
Blow that sends one reeling? WHIRLWIND
Caution needed if there's a rainfall during the game CHARINESS
Contacted a rider about the accidents PRANGS
Cooks right through and burns STREAMS
Cut and tint you quote for HEW
Disastrous for the overweight, most of all FATAL
From Ontario, songs: half-spoken, half-sung ARIOSO
From the outset give trouble all round, though little VESTIGE
Give to you to make your home habitable FURNISH
Gives no information about parking but penalises motorists CLAMPS
Gosh, he's skidded into and got cut! GASHED
How to make aliens like you HUMANISE
Including the grip you don't hand over WITHHOLD
Not chestnut - blonde ASH
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On the outside, showed when it had been given to DONATED
Prayer gives the worried four new heart OURFATHER
Said 'Told you so! It's a possessive adjective!' THEIR
She has permission to speak MAE
Short of retiring SHY
Start feeling the pain WINCE
Stops me going in for changes EMENDS
Swam round the river, which does abound with SWARM
Tear up agitatedly again, on opening APERTURE
They're detained for a time, hemmed in by the crowds HOSTAGES
Twig it's not your own hair SWITCH
Won't go to get the seats STALLS
Wonders if the phone has been cut: mean trick PHENOMENA
Worried a lot in the past as Denis got into trouble AGONISED
Yet possibly intertwined in it for ever ETERNITY
Your excellency is gracious! GOODNESS