The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,190 - Oct 20 2003

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A rule which is flexible TAPEMEASURE
A shade smaller than the Red Sea? Crimsonlake
A style we had redesigned acts as a guide Leadstheway
Baggage hold GRIP
Be depressed by work in the Middle East MOPE
Bird one plays with on board ROOK
C-in-C to drink with soldiers doctor SUPREMO
Contest the capitalistic thesis COMPETITION
Couplet's changed into an eightfold version OCTUPLE
Dead, and not before time LATE
Egotist who is acquainted with everybody? KNOWALL
Hit 150 before getting dismissed CLOUTED
Honour a merger of Ben and Noel ENNOBLE
I'd see about the object one loves IDOL
If French, is a non-runner BEAN
Invented art form with unintentional result INADVERTENT
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It produces ticker-tape Cardiograph
King Alfred's spoils? CAKES
Legal action DEED
Peer in uniform? EQUAL
Ponder a game of cards on a big scale WEIGHBRIDGE
Roman emperor hitched up with a European queen JULIANA
Ruler of star potential TSAR
Scots go in a group GANG
Separate when the interval's over BREAKUP
Sort of wolves apparently extinct? WERE
Supply the point before the joke EQUIP
Taunts egghead tangled in the sails JIBES
The middle section is convulsed during her performance BELLYDANCER
There's very little in the letter from abroad IOTA
They're very high in theatrical circles GODS
Water-sports expert to come out on top SURFACE