The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,264 - Nov 14 2004

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'Did the barber use shears to trim your hair?' CUTTINGREMARK
A clue in pencil LEAD
A lady-love in Ireland MAYO
A smooth 'Now we're quits' EVEN
Arranged to clap when I make an entrance about now TOPICAL
Come to grief in the passage TRIP
Do they appreciate light literature? READINGLAMPS
Do they flatten out kinky hair? ROLLERS
Does have a rider: there are catches HASPS
Exceedingly to the point, without exception EVERY
Fight Brown, a tough fellow SPARTAN
Is not allowed to wander round the Army post STATION
Just a little perch for the young creature TADPOLE
Losing a penny in the pound could spell ruin UNDO
Loyalist group the man is shielding PATRIOT
Makes us shaky in our French and irresolute NOTSURE
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Not a subject you'll remember from school RULER
Obviously require a shorter script NEEDLESSTOSAY
One inside turned out to be new UNTRIED
Put forward as a breakthrough ADVANCE
Rigidly precise page margin PRIM
Safe spot in which to give further care to the patient? RETREAT
Spoils by turning over in the middle BOOTY
Tend to be careful MIND
The former contains, still, clothes you'll never wear again LAYETTE
The letter is itself returned from the continent ASIA
The result of having bed-bugs? PLANTDISEASE
Trade is bad, causing angry outbursts TIRADES
Unfortunately leave the H out of 'hoist' ELEVATE
Where the door flew open in the cab travelling in Spain CORDOBA
Why you won't act in 'The Tear I Shed' INERTIA
Wild dogs make a racket and there are shots DINGOES