The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,287 - Feb 11 2004

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A bitter affliction for a priest BIRETTA
Board gets a union leader representation TABLEAU
Combined corps hardly ever seen RARE
Contract means that Kelvin can retire KNIT
Coward put a leading player in divine location DASTARD
Cutback many find a testing experience EXAM
Dish master returned to reflective German RISOTTO
First seen working as a builder, say ONSIGHT
Get airman to join vocal ensemble ACQUIRE
Hesitate to get a curling-iron WAVER
Houseman declares they're in the EU Memberstates
Imprison criminal? Splendid! CONFINE
It may grow in a small enclosure ASPEN
Judge a bishop without incisiveness ARBITER
Leg-show for a Frenchman in Liberia LIMB
Look out for uneven pavements! WATCHONESSTEP
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Married a Catholic producing brandy MARC
No age is free from dire sufferings AGONIES
Not certain if Sam has gone to Arabia UNCLEAR
Poor Alice - very mad and reckless DEVILMAYCARE
Relative dimensions of a fish-plate SCALE
Rod and Tom find it a stinker POLECAT
Sadly the yard appears to fill with water HYDRATE
Salt therapy CURE
Screen a dry man covered in parasites LATTICE
Seamstresses may fail to follow the story LOSETHETHREAD
Skips needed by a brewery HOPS
The outlook from Kiev is tactically good VISTA
Unladen vessel ornately adorned BAROQUE
Vitality mostly found in Spanish port VIGO
Walk round umpire to make introduction PREFACE
Withdraw pamphlet on Scripture RETRACT