The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,884 - Jan 9 2006

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Clues Answers
Ballet posture of Lincoln in square dance ARABESQUE
Daisy is kind of neat to look at OXEYE
Did he love to swim? Just the opposite! LEANDER
Dust one may well find on the bathroom shelf TALC
Feeling weak, but the tide is about to turn ATALOWEBB
Fire about fifty for being lax SLACK
Funny number? LAUGHINGGAS
Indicate there's some wine to finish off PORTEND
It keeps food warm when transferring to the lap HOTPLATE
It sounds like the height of resentment PIQUE
Mass trial arranged for scaremongers ALARMISTS
Metal washing machine? COPPER
Not the best of the entries, usually BACKDOOR
Obtains information about raising money for the future NESTEGG
One has to fire on the run in this sporting event SACKRACE
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One involved in two matches at the same time BIGAMIST
Page fasteners? BUTTONS
Pain FRENCHBREAD
Quiet little person wants place for books SHELF
Remove the sediment from port DREDGE
Rough-made organisation of wartime volunteers HOMEGUARD
Select shafts for soil-loosening tools Pickaxes
Strange patterns found in church TRANSEPT
Suitable cut-out for computer LAPTOP
Talk with the French politicians may be illuminating GASLAMPS
TV programme that's being reviewed? REPEAT
Unruly apes get the ruler for talking SPEAKING
Very plain facial feature? NOSE
Wise man supports university practice USAGE
Wrongly equated with a mile? AMISS