The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,255 - Jan 5 2004

Tired of your current crossword puzzle? Try solving our daily crossword puzzles. GO TO DAILY PUZZLES!
Clues Answers
A French wine cartel broken up CLARET
A means of fixing salary commonly SCREW
A pile of snow - like an ice-floe? ADRIFT
A relation in retirement BEDTIMESTORY
A tune-up during the opera ARIA
A weedy type, and stingy NETTLE
Card game, we hear HEART
Carole is making an announcement ORACLE
Cheat a party on bedding material DODOWN
Confessed to having been taken in ADMITTED
Deal might get a doctor into a row TIMBER
Disciple to stick with the New Testament ADHERENT
Extract from an address that could be a verb or a noun PARTOFSPEECH
Game captain takes control here BRIDGE
Get hard ideas changed or reject them? SETASIDE
Got into a bed, drunk OBTAINED
Clues Answers
In his eyes, beauty may be seen BEHOLDER
Is first and last an Oxford rowing crew ISIS
It can't be passed in silence ORAL
It strikes one as a mild expletive BLOW
Keeps turning in bed? MEANDERS
Loud exchange in game LUDO
Novelist to drink without something to eat TROLLOPE
Out of sight; out of mind ROUNDTHEBEND
Round-the-world trip ORBIT
Sending out to the Orient on a job EMISSION
Slippers - or part of 'em? EELS
Small firms get together over a drink COCOA
Some time in the past PRISONRECORD
They're for putting on vegetables GREENS
Travel free to the East RIDE
Work in church and you may wear it COPE