The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,269 - Dec 19 2004

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Clues Answers
'I'm a crossword compiler'! CRYPTICREMARK
'Jiggery-pokery? That's an insult,' you say SLEIGHT
A must, when reverting to your fruit diet? SATSUMA
Aim to get in trim for the event TRAIN
Almost beginning to see Rigel STAR
Do the same as the bird - a teal of some sort EMULATE
Forbidding one to show one's peeved GRIMACE
Furnishes with buckles GIVES
Grant abused in the Home Counties? That's bizarre STRANGE
In the preliminary period, fly the flag RUNUP
Is it recognisable by its funny old leaves? CHESTNUTTREE
It's used as a support, so don't cut a hole in STOODON
Jam hearing notices are almost put over SEIZEUP
Let slip you'd like to be with again MISS
Light that acts as a yardstick for others? STANDARDLAMP
Ones that are non-returnable ACES
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Partners to the bitter end, we gathered RALLIED
Pool resources for the brokerage? SHAREEXPENSES
Putted successfully, you grasp from the conversation HOLED
Reluctant to see the clergy lose its head LOTH
Shot that gives one a fright TURN
So I'm changing the number to put a damper on things MOISTEN
Someone drawing from the bank TIER
Standing, greeted a figure entering; a seductive lady DELILAH
Stream from the needy, say POUR
The retiring editor is put through and there's an argument DISPUTE
They're going off, the bounders! ROTTERS
Think it's an island MULL
Think that is the master having a drink inside IMAGINE
To correct it, change gear REDRESS
What's that the mermaid's stroking? CATFISH
With super new business coming in, makes good losses RECOUPS