The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 25,232 - Feb 20 2007

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Clues Answers
...slippery eel Blair's honest RELIABLE
Approach open river OVERTURE
Boss with 'Number Ten' apartment... STUDIO
Broadcast Oscars in stupor NARCOSIS
Camp taunts? BARRACKS
Conservative no-hoper's not so distant CLOSER
Dear former wife's broody EXPENSIVE
Drink beer with patron SUPPORTER
Drink on account of French honour ACCOLADE
Expert forced to accept work PRACTISED
For example, fiction about sovereign LIEGE
GI's standard issue? STARSANDSTRIPES
Go up for prize APPRECIATE
Heaved, say, in toilet THRONE
Hold back deluge imprisoning alien RETAIN
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Magistrate takes dunderhead and creates deception DODGE
Match without end is tied EVEN
More urbane - put out about nothing SMOOTHER
Most aged housed in cold establishments OLDEST
Old and unsteady, on and off USED
Perform Queen favourite in quiet tempo PERPETRATE
Pimple head's back SPOT
Romantic proposal TENDER
Singer's note for the audience TENOR
Sloth from setter with endless cryptic IDLENESS
The man on bed in Paris is agile! LITHE
Tossing caber, so I exercise AEROBICS
Travelling to open air performance OPERATION
Turn round for drinks NIPS