The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,313 - Jan 29 2006

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Are helpful to - having been in bad shape, gets well BENEFIT
Are they needed for a saucy play? DRESSERS
As a member of the household staff, he won't part with the Cockney girl RETAINER
As before, tie up in the lobby ANTEROOM
Aunt is to wangle one into a job SITUATION
Cover drops down for a duck EIDER
Discourses on the zero quotas ORATIONS
Even up, too LEVEL
He's ordained, at a signal, the animal should come in CURATE
I spot one trapped inside, the fool IDIOT
If you say it's pretty, will it snap back 'Phooey'? PARROT
In the past, impressionistic bird designs PATTERNS
Is older, I've found out, and a bad type EVILDOER
Leave one stuck with some riding tackle SADDLE
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Mad, returns the shot BATS
Make for the hospital? GOTOWARDS
Say sweetly 'Back into bed! Very bad!' CORRUPT
She made her comeback in 'A Man of the Cloth' VERA
So after all left unfinished, too ALSO
Step one is to go through a period in history STONEAGE
Stick around, mind in a whirl, for the game BADMINTON
Suppose, when the birds return to ASSUME
Sweet and sour TART
The brat broke, with a stick, outside light PORTABLE
The rest can't stand the strain BREAK
The wind is light, son, and variable in it MONSOON
Turns back to and complains about ROTATES
Without exception resign, upset about the railwayman SIGNALLER