The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,581 - Jan 20 2005

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A diamond squeeze is the recommendation ADVICE
Anger at seeing tabloid in sailor's course ENRAGE
Avoids a bad start on colours ABSTAINS
Betrayal seen by capacity crowd SELLOUT
Champion could be a Parisian with rhythm, energy and bearing UNBEATEN
Chap with one drink MARTINI
Common Lombardy environment for mid-January POPULAR
Creature that runs a temperature RAT
Cross with broker's compensation for hardship XFACTOR
Dish in which one has ice cream, perhaps MACARONICHEESE
Family life? It's comedy, it is funny Domesticity
Fashionable joint HIP
Go under and live precariously in gorge OVERINDULGE
Have Luton, say, lost the lead OWN
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I have been caught by officers with prisoners CAPTIVES
Mostly communicate to Conservative witnesses Signatories
Partial translation or dictionary from Scandinavia NORDIC
Pilots broadcast to the troops AIRMEN
Practical person about to go on a rota REALIST
Sally's about to leave with the drugs REPARTEE
Sensation caused by the dressmaker's use of them PINSANDNEEDLES
Singers' minor concession to Indian princess SOPRANI
Sounding sceptical about whisky RYE
The advantages of living on the edge? FRINGEBENEFITS
The hostility of women beset by troubles ILLWILL
They'd pen mad letters, leaving unrewarded EMPTYHANDED
Tom Sharpe's odd turns of phrase? MIXEDMETAPHORS
Weapon concealed by dear French smooth talker CHARMER