The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,596 - Feb 7 2005

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Are they designed to hold two feet of copper hose? BOBBYSOCKS
Awkward cases caught in a doorway? ACCESS
Becoming uniform for a social occasion EVENINGOUT
Beheaded, it would be even more venomous WASP
Bishop expatiates on blackberry bushes BRAMBLES
Dejected when name is not top of the bill? DOWNCAST
Drastic cuts in monastic establishments TONSURES
Dull sounding fruit SLOE
Exposed as a dummy CARDSONTHETABLE
Extravagant faults we amend WASTEFUL
Father, say, is outwardly improved BEGETTER
Girl embraces chap back in Hamlet's place ELSINORE
Give support to a kind deed FAVOUR
Indicate that the score is not quite accurate POINTOUT
Island uprising accomplished ABLE
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Mackerel bait? SPRAT
Masefield's main complaint SEAFEVER
New instance of the Greeks and Romans? ANCIENTS
No longer keen on pure cream? OFFWHITE
Oriental with earnest resolve EASTERN
Produced admitted superiority YIELDED
Sailor returns to crime, seen in the dock BASIN
Score book LIBRETTO
Set to work with new tutor after assembly TURNTO
Team the French enter late in the day ELEVEN
Uncast replacement? SPAREPART
Unimportant persons making solving of murders difficult NOBODIES
We hear it's bound to go wrong? OFFCOURSE
Withdrew labour LEFT