The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,906 - Feb 3 2006

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Clues Answers
A joke may backfire - it's dotty GAGA
A maiden in hotel - Emma? HAMILTON
A proverbial sort of thief PROCRASTINATION
A university asked for some musical entertainment AUBADE
About to enter religious group preserving privacy SECRET
Aloof in manner but engaged RESERVED
Arrive to find duty roster at university? ROLLUP
Big figure in communications TELEPHONENUMBER
Cat in container - a month trapped upside down! JAGUAR
Cockerel maybe - not female bird OWL
Crude Eastern paintings, they having odd bits missing EARTHY
Don't stop Henry being deadly LETHAL
Eminence achieved by little workers ANTHILL
English queen in middle of field - is she riding this? EQUINE
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Fish move uncertainly leaving river EEL
Holiday ill-fortune reported FETE
Individual achieved success, we hear ONE
It's mucky around one - destroying this? CLARITY
Listless having got over argument and not in usual place? BORROWED
Middle section hiding pole's rust CORRODE
Minerals found in forest ORES
One more please! ELEVEN
Pal - now he fretted playing a piece of music PETERANDTHEWOLF
Someone unacceptable in Rome - or anywhere else PERSONANONGRATA
There's a beastly noise all right outside home OINK
This medicine being wrong could make you annoyed ANODYNE
Weapon in pub something unlikely to fall over? BALANCER
What's picked by the meticulous fool NIT