The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,270 - Jan 22 2004

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'Friends'? Hit's finishing for good PROGRAM
...concerning transport problem REBUS
...gallery after I note it's fake IMITATE
...that would be telling! NARRATION
Author of 'Bleak Mouse', originally GRIMM
Bars where there's panic with dash to be served HANDICAPS
Bastion of 'Cool Paris' fashion ACROPOLIS
Butcher's succeeding holding in sound of disgust SLAUGHTER
Dead end here, perhaps... SEPULCHRE
Deadline? CORTEGE
Domesticated setter's a bit round TAMED
Don't come it if you want to stay in one piece! CROPPER
Get out of French TGV? DETRAIN
Gives professor a suitable supplement DONATES
Grand place for curry GROOM
Ham cut open with a can-opener? OVERACT
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He is asked to stand to find a seat NOMINEE
He's the first man emergency demands in crisis MEDIC
Heart-throb met aboard ship...? DREAMBOAT
Hit singles? He'll want to do better than that BATSMAN
It's found on board ships on a recce SONAR
Objects to putting work before raises OPPOSES
Paddy field contains rice, principally STROP
Paint something sensitive - not intellectual TEMPERA
Questions of ethics came out losing one point CATECHISM
Reeled off blushing - having received call to appear in court RECITED
Robbin' Hood? RACKETEER
Split from Conservative to the other side CLEFT
The main event? REGATTA
To a rare concoction - it will give you gas! AERATOR
Twister flogging phony to... TYPHOON
Where pride comes before a fall? EGOTRIP