The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,926 - Feb 27 2006

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A concrete addition to the total AGGREGATE
A game of cards - contract perhaps ABRIDGE
Allergy to cats or dogs? Petaversion
Alternative to a politician speechifying ORATORY
Black marketeer upsets the top brass SPIV
Busts are developed, but not easily perceived ABSTRUSE
Charm, finish and musical ability ENDEAR
Chicken quarters HENHOUSE
Contract made by a group of charming women with a social worker COVENANT
Determined to follow on an attack ONSET
Don rises, or is still in bed NOTUP
Exclude use of foreign lawyers DEBAR
Growth of the reindeer ANTLER
Hirsute one going for a comb HONEYBEAR
Leaves collected here for potting TEABAG
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Loans made by suitors ADVANCES
Man of affairs? PHILANDERER
Managed to hold the first man coming up fast RAMADAN
Militant to work on arranged visit ACTIVIST
Moved camp AFFECTED
My clue for a lecture hall LYCEUM
One to do it wrongly IDIOT
Promptly at the end of the sentence ONTHEDOT
Recognise and arrest APPREHEND
Show how old one is in a gasp PAGEANT
Something fragrant returned in the time left ELEMI
Such an atmosphere is thin, fear dire consequences RAREFIED
The hump in the middle of bridges RIDGE
Very keen to rise as a singer DIVA
What is the rat doing revising for an exam? GOINGOVER