The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,267 - Jan 19 2004

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A column seen in flight NEWEL
As worn by a parachutist? JUMPSUIT
Book that's dull gets cut MATTHEW
Carve a large slice of meat VEAL
Dutch barrister's liqueur ADVOCAAT
Example set by the ancients, maybe INSTANCE
Get off with a blonde ALIGHT
He comes in to wait, finally ATTHEEND
He takes note MESSENGER
I respect new evidence of settlements RECEIPTS
It's just a question of time WHEN
Jettison a substandard cargo OFFLOAD
Kind of dive lorry drivers try to avoid JACKKNIFE
One who studies hard and pulls up SWOT
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Order a dessert APPLEPIE
Outline of a short play SKETCH
Scattered the rest around two points of the compass STREWN
Scene of a towering row BABEL
Set out pictures on the street START
Sister diverted with love romances STORIES
Soldier in ebbing sea gets protection AEGIS
Soldier to offer information unasked VOLUNTEER
The widow who urges one to take a gamble DOWAGER
These, when mixed, harm poets METAPHORS
Vessels of the Royal Navy in America URNS
We'd sit out, in the broadest sense WIDEST
Whacked a loafer DEADBEAT
What the driver needs on the whole is to be sober TEETOTAL