The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,774 - Sep 2 2005

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A scent she's sprayed conveys purity CHASTENESS
Abuse instrument at back of stage VIOLATE
Audibly drinks a river! TEES
Chest cold can make you this, we hear COFFER
Components of it may be inch wads SANDWICH
Detesting money-grabbing witch HATING
Familiar initial words, but continue a poem differently ONCEUPONATIME
Groups of soldiers, Nazis, going round courtyard SQUADS
Insects? Find them together in rubbish BEES
It's pretty basic, yet Marlene is confused ELEMENTARY
It's the custom to be surrounded by many water lilies LOTUSES
Items of property, like TVs maybe ASSETS
Just what you need to get things stitched up quickly SEWINGMACHINE
Language puts public schoolboy outside society ESTONIAN
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Look as some dog - lecherously OGLE
Man, loud and ruddy, getting to fade away FREDDIE
Most sober dissent is coming from Paris DEMUREST
Mythical female in song meeting death on return ARIADNE
Not good enough, like those marching beneath the banner? BELOWSTANDARD
Number 5 person in the club putting off maiden number 11! (8) NOVEMBER
Old lady getting with it - recreational drug and rock! GRANITE
One sailor and another joined by fate MATELOT
Rage when lecturer's ignored celebrity FAME
Religious society that could make Ed pious OPUSDEI
Set of people installing a Parisian in bishop's throne TRIBUNE
Town rafter working in area by the sea? WATERFRONT
Winter now here? Get into arrears FALLBEHIND
Words to describe these clues and this grid, honestly! FAIRANDSQUARE