The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,617 - Dec 4 2011

Tired of your current crossword puzzle? Try solving our daily crossword puzzles. GO TO DAILY PUZZLES!
Clues Answers
Antarctic cools abnormally -- that's collectively agreed SOCIALCONTRACT
Avoiding extremes, lads got in trouble ADO
Butterfly, one that's not common MONARCH
Checks claim this can be seen on computer SCREENSAVER
Delicacy and discretion when embracing the Italian way CAVIARE
E.g., sailor or gaoler is misbehaving in women's quarters SERAGLIO
For vessel, someone putting up canvas? PITCHER
Governed country short of capital RAN
Guard retreating to make new plan, perhaps REDRAW
Hard taskmaster bathed in southern stream SLAVEDRIVER
Orator showing constant unfriendliness to leaders in Rome CICERO
Player's departure without greeting bandleader in show EXHIBIT
Profession of ship's officer in Muslim territory IMAMATE
Protected from virus since it returned in European computer ASEPTIC
Clues Answers
Pub, say, with XXXX? If that is right, it could be jolly INTENSIFIER
Rook is taken after pawn in substantial counterattack REPRISAL
Seat providing support BEHIND
Shock treatment might cure this slight problem HICCUP
Show sort of deer, totally destroyed in a place where they were hunted SHERWOODFOREST
South of cape, a French composer in Spanish ship CARAVEL
Taken in by police without husband, giving testimony ATTESTATION
Terse appreciation of gift could make one tense PRESENTPERFECT
Transcribe date incorrectly, unable to think clearly SCATTERBRAINED
Transport not fully occupied, mostly broken down BUS
Under pressure, mishandled task in a foreign country PAKISTAN
Was calculating and insensitive about ruler NUMBERED
Was deceptive -- cold, then hot CHEATED
With ultimate correctness, expelling a small child TOT