The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,734 - Jul 18 2005

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Clues Answers
An Oriental, well-liked at first, becomes foolish INANE
Be too clever for Oxford University idiot OUTWIT
Being annoyed, informed the police NARKED
Breakfast dish, for example, reeked when off KEDGEREE
Copper isn't very well behaved ASGOODASGOLD
Final member of tug-of-war team weighed before departure ANCHOR
He has no settled occupation NOMAD
He's in the firing line STOKER
His home is detached, naturally ISLANDER
I get an encore, or the bird IBIS
In a way one has to admire a negotiator MEDIATOR
It is used for shelling before the soldiers go in EGGSPOON
It's for grappling with a curse in volume BOATHOOK
Lies low, as the away fan does before the match? Goestoground
Long sentence in a biography LIFE
Love a note repeatedly played in the orchestra OBOE
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Old man may be a tough nut to crack ALMOND
One sees working models at these events Fashionshows
One vehicle or another I slipped into wrong gear CARRIAGE
Order form CLASS
Plan to put money in the kitty PLOT
Port is left in it, in more than one way SHIP
Reformed lag in prison, now a church member ANGLICAN
Resentment one can bear GRUDGE
Restored rare breed REAR
Royal mine for a long time, we hear? OURS
Say, what a mess! STATE
Sound advice for securing a small case LOCKET
Speculate when the mineral is found inside THEORISE
Travellers with a long-standing grievance STRAPHANGERS
Ugly sister refused a drink on her return GORGON
Visitors to Sicily should see it before coming back ETNA