The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,159 - Nov 10 2002

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A confounded red! RUDDY
A little taken aback by the information DATA
Affected by inflation, now, sell out SWOLLEN
Catch in a clinch with the pupil NAIL
Did the same when the department head retired APED
Dying to get a report about it back ABATING
Furious the curtain of hair is artificial MANMADE
Get a ring, in short, and try to persuade to marry COURT
Good at golf from the very beginning? SCRATCH
Had been lying throughout, to be more candid PLAINER
Having taken a liking to, though it's unfinished PARTIAL
How the long way round is superior to others? BYFARTHEBEST
If I can show scholar to be foppish... FINICAL
In need of a stiffener before the little blighter left LIMP
Jack's workplace STEEPLE
Nightingale produced by a female genie? LADYOFTHELAMP
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Roll home an hour after FLATTEN
So guileless it's extraordinary? UNCANNY
Start play again with a substitute RESERVE
The sharp one, put inside topless ACUTE
The shot that ended it all? FINALATTEMPT
These days, gets fed up penning speeches TIRADES
Tie material LACE
To cap it all, get tangled in the hairpiece TOPKNOT
To this day, I associate it with Tibet YETI
Was with one in spirit HAUNTED
What do I do when the alarm goes off? Keep watch WAKE
What made the table move, as a joke, when table-turning? LEGPULL
When you shut up, I'll tell you what the tree is! ASPEN
While in midweek it will slacken off EASE
With hair standing on end, comes from the kitchen DESSERT
Won't tell you what vampires do in the daytime KEEPINTHEDARK