The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 23,945 - Jan 7 2003

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A consistent exam? ALEVEL
A top class to study poet AUDEN
Actually happen to see visitor from space on French street COMETRUE
Be unnerving, as snake may RATTLE
Carry out piece of equipment IMPLEMENT
Curiosity not even displayed? ODDITY
Desk in French office BUREAU
Deter plan to travel to Mars REDPLANET
Dismissed, in debt, and heavily defeated ROUTED
Entirely understood there is no danger ALLCLEAR
For a Highlander, it may be a toss-up CABER
Head shows old boy poem OBVERSE
Israeli keen for musical instrument JEWSHARP
Looks depressed at start of parlour game EYESDOWN
Not still avoiding justice? ONTHERUN
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Old tribesman seen in Kabul garden BULGAR
Picture biscuits fresh from the oven SNAPSHOT
Remarkable praise for former name of country PERSIA
Resting place for those that are puffing? ASHTRAY
Shortly clean little room for composer PURCELL
Son in hat, swaggering type BOASTER
Song is loud - yearn for change ROUNDELAY
Sovereign state KINGSHIP
Spotted dealing with mail, the second to arrive? PIPPEDATTHEPOST
Superior to most of you in turn BEYOND
Tired, sat out, slower than everyone TARDIEST
What she wears, we hear, is hairy HIRSUTE
Wife went fishing, having got her way WANGLED
You cannot be serious, using such volumes of material Jokebooks