The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 25,737 - Oct 2 2008

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A term in school clothes RAIMENT
Ball players everybody bans ALLBLACKS
Bank offers to set down reports DEPOSITACCOUNTS
Characteristics of article being rejected - true to form! NATURE
Child featured in Pilgrim's Progress SPROG
Clear parliament for providing hospitality OPENHOUSE
Container with chain oddly attached to goat BILLYCAN
Cruel people turn back and resent losing fifty percent OGRES
Depressed, chasing contact on landing TOUCHDOWN
Direct train INSTRUCT
Does mutagen change and grow? AUGMENT
Fashions in first of modern poems MODES
Free service not available LETOFF
Give a name to debts that are questionable DUBIOUS
How to contain fire? SACK
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Intellectuals who might encourage principals EGGHEADS
Lively odds justly followed SPRIGHTLY
Nothing to support clear party promises! MANIFESTO
One might fly off seeing lead actor taken in by friend BUSTARD
Pardon soldiers on military operation REMISSION
Regretted promoting the last one, as ill-mannered RUDE
Saying nothing in a mix up AXIOM
Shock at almost being bitten STUN
Singer's medical examiner raising resistance CROONER
Song that meant he must take part ANTHEM
Southern Irish lake and marsh SLOUGH
Taking on and winning ENGAGING
The church welcomes lists to purge CLEANSE
The group to admit religious instruction? TRIO
Where one might borrow telephone books? MOBILELIBRARIES