The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 23,968 - Feb 3 2003

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Clues Answers
A Blue, not with university, showing talent ABLE
A fellow with a round bowler, perhaps DELIVERYMAN
A fool, and terribly rude, that's for certain ASSURED
Angered kids wrecked bookstand READINGDESK
Arrangement not laid down? SETUP
Calm, yet still quits EVEN
Charge for keeping silver in warehouse STORAGE
Doctor reveals some, but not many SEVERAL
Does it teach you to handle a knife carefully? Sharplesson
Drove one mad, it's so mawkish SENTIMENTAL
Erotic reply to proposal returned, a case for a kiss SEXY
Fairly big orderly TIDY
Far from stern? Fiddlesticks! BOWS
Fine steak and a drink with the family PORTERHOUSE
Having nothing on a horse, raised the stake finally NUDE
It's in our blood SERUM
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Kitty taken aback by aerobatic manoeuvre LOOP
Lettuce hard to beat COSH
Lowest note a student may make MINIMAL
Painter, sanctimonious and a fool in company PICASSO
Put in a word for the working class PROLETARIAT
Read one novel in school ROEDEAN
Return from work at the end of the week? TAKEHOMEPAY
Sounded like a beast of burden, we hear LOWED
Still one doubts in its existence YETI
Take a university course about modern times READ
The French graduate becomes a priest LAMA
The highlight of the Nativity STAR
They may commemorate different battles TABLETS
They're played for money NOTES
Valiant but open to still further suspicion? REDOUBTABLE
Vermin seen round sack - cause of disease? MICROBE