The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 26,463 - Jan 31 2011

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A service the abstainer takes comfort in TEASET
Above and just behind the clock OVERDUE
Age-old celebrations BIRTHDAYS
Board bring in a head ready to educate TEACHABLE
Cat found in a pound OUNCE
Check one's surrounded by others RESIST
Coach building SCHOOL
Employees in steel-works making components ELEMENTS
Extent of usefulness on board SHELFLIFE
Good players may make bloomers SEEDS
He looks for a way to sell his wares STREETTRADER
He's lawless -- a little grasping also BANDIT
It's half-day closing, mate! FRIEND
It's out of town and out of the country SUBURB
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Loop-line quickly going North, then East NOOSE
One who insists on giving direction to trout-catcher STICKLER
Prepares for action -- reason may follow STANDSTO
Pretty girl in crimson and rose REBELLED
Promise father a part in the play PAROLE
Savings book RESERVE
Scratches from use of manacle on board SCUFFS
Stuffed dates dished out SATED
Suspect wrongdoing, let alarms go off SMELLARAT
Try to intimidate and upset Theatre Trust UTTERTHREATS
Uncooked, filleted and lean RAWBONED
Vandalised relics to place in the cathedral CLOISTER
Vessel sunk at the bar SCHOONER
You're probably surprised when they go up EYEBROWS