The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 23,873 - Oct 14 2002

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Clues Answers
A quarter past twelve and not a soul to be seen NOONE
Agree with someone as tall as yourself? SEEEYETOEYE
An author's sources WELLS
Blunt to no purpose? POINTLESS
Class system moulded on the orient CASTE
Don't leave out, being charitable in wild reel REKINDLE
Establish oneself in women's concerns ENSCONCE
Establishment fleecing its customers CLIPJOINT
Eternal theme of the beautician AGELESS
Girl will entertain neither alternative site for Hamlet ELSINORE
Growth seen when ship's bottom is turned over LEEK
He interrupts politician, showing presumption THEORY
He's not a striking example of comradeship BLACKLEG
It's clear-cut as a decisive trial Crucialtest
Join some troops heading East UNITE
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Lecture given in the services LESSON
Man out in storm reaching peak MOUNTAIN
Meal inside the German hotel DINNER
One Nebuchadnezzar fired settled for hard cash SHADRACH
Place money CAPITAL
Sad about girl losing her head, getting the sack DISMISSAL
School of painting? ARTCLASS
See the key goes to the agent ESPY
Settle the will RESOLVE
Shells coming from this egg-farm BATTERY
The keynote to good health? TONIC
Throws out rejects right away EJECTS
Trick Noel into an engagement INTERLOCK
Two score in Rome, we hear, and do better EXCEL
Worn thin perhaps, so it's included free THROWNIN