The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,249 - Dec 29 2003

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A much revered figure out of work, we hear IDOL
A number making a living in education LEARNING
A ventriloquist's rehearsal? DUMMYRUN
Actors in form CAST
Added to the rash of escapes? Brokeout
Bar put up outside a show REVEAL
Caused alarm to go off in the van STARTLED
Chap involved with literacy in original form ARCHETYPICAL
Devastating winger LOCUST
Falter, and stop HALT
Gold backing used by firms for ornamental decoration ROCOCO
Growing children's playground centre MULBERRYBUSH
How to beat the streaker? OUTSTRIP
Large amounts used in cooking POTS
Live on top of desert spring DWELL
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Love to run the eye over a mountain nymph OREAD
No permission for a recess NOOK
Not a steady influence SWAY
Novel time piece ITEM
One stays in bed when working ANCHOR
Pull beneath the waves UNDERTOW
Ruin the riverside, as punters may do BREAKTHEBANK
Scheme that is little short of perfect IDEA
Secured broken red teeth TETHERED
Shrub no dealer can provide OLEANDER
Song composed about the present time SERENADE
Sound simple UNSPOILT
Taken in for a fantastic slap-up do SOLDAPUP
We hear it's to sponsor an exotic kind of orgy BACCHANALIAN
Where the pirates of Penzance come ashore with despatch? LANDSEND