The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 23,642 - Jan 17 2002

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...or make a threat to wife in this place, or another ELSEWHERE
Aneurin, French friend of yours, once, is outside! THIAMINE
At the end one is desperate to restrain an animal TETHER
Bearing dignitary, fit to fly AIRWORTHY
Being scholarly, retitle a novel LITERATE
Better half deprived of final point TERMINUS
Breather can be especially short in ceremony RESPITE
Complaint after a new statute ACTOFPARLIAMENT
Cover-up of defeat WHITEWASH
Firm turning over Italian island, mostly rough DURABLE
Gull abroad having shortened tail OUTWIT
Hawthorn border in chaos MAYHEM
Her Majesty's house? AUDIENCE
I go on nights in France to see people from Alaska, possibly INUITS
Its eastern dishes can not be taken out HAREM
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Like one fated, cruelly, to have no ear? TONEDEAF
Lose nothing, rebuilding pontoons without a break NONSTOP
Name and number below NETHER
Offer a very soft food fish APPROACH
Old-fashioned mechanic who could help in gear selection? OUTFITTER
Older Spaniard embraces one SENIOR
One who does in a package TOURIST
Place name of common man, carrying £25 to a bookie TOPONYM
Present most excellent ring to wife BESTOW
Reserved novel, keeping it back RETICENT
Slip by England's opener, run out ELAPSE
Start of an attack ONSET
State of the musical? OKLAHOMA
Threat to health from low tars? TORPEDO