The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 25,388 - Aug 21 2007

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'Former PM's sound!', journalist thundered BLARED
'Posh' in press smear DAUB
A hostile state ENMITY
Author's dull and hollow DRYDEN
Can perhaps, with old sauce MAYO
Contact Queen in case of Tory back-stabbing TREACHERY
Cop for Sarkozy? GENDARME
Cop on beat - cell is prepared POLICECONSTABLE
Discernment of gallery holding Sisley opening TASTE
Fix setter's getting sack IMBED
Freedom from sickly Blair smile Liberalism
Hard case ruined game CHARADES
Heart is ticking, internally sensitive ARTISTIC
Iran ends with diplomacy undamaged INTACT
Kill time say, losing time ERADICATE
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Larvae in exotic bloom VALERIAN
Lover's knot, we hear BEAU
Make old boy fib about government head OBLIGE
Phoney heartless Blair messed about DISSEMBLER
Rot initially found on cheese plant BRIER
Start school INSTITUTE
Staunch worker after power PARTISAN
Stomach set turning on Ecstasy and speed TOLERATE
Strange slur with a gin cocktail SINGULAR
Subsistence wage? LIVING
Take off before 'Number Ten' summit APEX
The main men? ADMIRALTY
Tipped following thin time LEANT
Work, you say, in helping people POPULATE