The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 25,489 - Dec 17 2007

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About due for a dockyard job REFIT
Admits to swindle with grants CONCEDES
Agent fortified with liquor is dismissed REPLACED
Badly thrashed, nothing! It couldn't be closer SHORTHEAD
Clothes holder on a motor-bike? GEARCASE
Cuts the cackle and helps with the dish washing DRIESUP
Cyril's odd ode LYRIC
French president's place - see more than once ELYSEE
Furniture not right, needs changing from now on Infuture
Gives some people your address? ORATES
I'm given picket duty IMPOST
Involved in a cult that's crazy LUNATIC
My kind GRACIOUS
Not the first team to take the field SECONDELEVEN
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One by one? SELFPORTRAIT
One river's turbulent ebb REVERSION
Person who stoops to alcoholic excess? BENDER
Prescription for success in the kitchen RECIPE
Rehearsal for a TT race? DRYRUN
Simple but revealing SHEER
Slips in proofs of humanity? ERRORS
Soft drink without fruit APPLE
Soldier without papers is very suspicious PARANOID
Standard followed by a helper as a rule NORMALLY
Temporary shelter in which there's an occupant TENANT
The rotter embraced a foolish girl and made love Canoodled
Two ways to operate? Get away! CUTANDRUN
Vulgar chaps start telling a low story BASEMENT