The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,349 - Apr 23 2004

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Clues Answers
A competitor not doing well in either finals or annual exams ALSORAN
A game cut short ABRIDGE
A military music man - and very superior with it! SOUSA
A note to file - 'Hold on' GRASP
An order one with intelligence finds sinister OMINOUS
Appearing surprisingly trim in ski clothing MINISKIRT
Article occupying people in Washington SEATTLE
Call up a goddess in spring EMANATE
Comes, not for the first time, to gather fruit REAPPEARS
Composer with a colourful career? STAINER
Courting custom Touting
Film seen by a sailor mid-evening is hot! TARNISH
Germ-free space - it may get polluted ASEPTIC
Hastily prepared score SCRATCH
He can be relied upon to play his part TROUPER
Long-lived oriental bird - a pound only ETERNAL
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Non-professional from a dull back street in Paris AMATEUR
Odds, oddly enough EVENS
Offers evidence at trials ATTESTS
Old German prince, a choosy individual ELECTOR
Placing naval officers in unimagined situation REPOSAL
Rushed around American quarter to obtain some silk TUSSORE
See it as possibly the simplest solution EASIEST
Sort of thing that is assumed when retiring NIGHTIE
Standing by for a lengthy party ALONGSIDE
Talk about a mad fellow CHATTER
The company's overmuch absorbed in design PLATOON
The little page working late gets double PLEAT
There's some purpose in ripped clothing RAIMENT
Tricky sums are set for a scholar ERASMUS
Varying geographically, in a manner of speaking DIALECT
Will meant to go straight following investigation TESTAMENT