The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 25,277 - Apr 13 2007

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A dramatic incident follows mother producing sword DAMASCENE
Course dealt with various poems EPSOM
Defeat finished with one of the strikers in the box OVERMATCH
Expression of resignation by plodder, one quick to know the score SIGHTREADER
Facts about English sailors in hellish situation INFERNO
I sat befouled with mud in sports field STADIUM
Institute's commendation quietly ignored RAISE
Man facing surgery with nothing to lose - hopeless state DESPERATION
Man is buried under lair DENIS
Old female darts across motorway, getting out of bounds OFFLIMITS
One could accommodate members of the NUT STAFFROOM
Perplexed and stymied if sent the wrong way MYSTIFIED
Play for time, giving office worker zero increase TEMPORISE
Problem with spine hit last week? SLIPPEDDISC
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Relief money about to be collected in pubs for natives INDIANS
Rifle in one market at the front MARTINI
Shows compassion for missy - she apt to break down SYMPATHISES
Somewhere to swim at far end of the town POOLE
Sort of earthenware in no store surprisingly IRONSTONE
Sort of plant to have sticker on? GUMTREE
Stars love performing outside science institution ORION
Sun attracts enthusiastic throng SWARM
Temperate part of the globe CONTINENT
Terrorists in Jerusalem - a fiasco MAFIA
The female graduate in a wealthy old place SHEBA
There's no scoring with these girls MAIDENS
Vegetables spoil - lines of them in garden MARROWS
Welshman tells fibs, according to the papers DAILIES