The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,260 - Oct 17 2004

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Clues Answers
A look will show the name is on the wrong end GLANCE
Act as agent for SPY
Alphabetically seventh in rank for the game TIGER
Candidate for the job of spreader-on? APPLICANT
Carries out a survey of lawsuits CASES
Caught a real streamer - cold that's going round COLLARED
Child imbued with desire to be a performer in the theatre SURGEON
Container from one's runabout CANISTER
Crack one ACE
Decline to take the favourite route: it's meandering PETEROUT
Go on rambling about being imprisoned in NW America OREGON
Hair of the dog knocked back MOP
Have gambled everything away. Am in dire straits ALLISLOST
Having listened to the conversation, was allowed to run off TAPPED
He's found in central London, in the end, drunk EDWIN
Hits with the car and one carries out an investigation GOESINTO
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Is smuggled in a hollow bag VALISE
Kill the chief-to-be BEHEAD
Pat brought round a plant CARESS
Play up to someone you want to gain favour with SERENADE
Prudence that makes you buy food that won't perish? CANNINESS
Retreat beaten by the companion from a garrulous person CHATTERER
Rifle found in a burrow? FERRET
Rip out almost all the façade for her APRIL
Sinks, for starters! FOUNDERS
Standing in the carriage BEARING
Stop on a winding side street DESIST
That's right. The S in 'succeed' PROSPER
The Hatter residence? MADHOUSE
Went ahead when induced to LED
What attracted you to the chest in the furniture shop? DRAWERS
While, in Serbia, destroyed military centres AIRBASES