The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,938 - Mar 13 2006

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A number take exam, naturally it's hard CORAL
Aiming for a title HEADING
Book for the opera LIBRETTO
Catch line, unravel using a specialised skill TECHNICAL
Chap to leave a served vegetable MANGETOUT
Charm, going topless at fashionable race meeting ASCOT
Criminal worker found after awful crimes MISCREANT
Drop out at university to prepare for the theatre SCRUBUP
Drug quietly injected into a rabbit DOPE
Fame made owner change name RENOWN
Go away when it's cloudless on holiday CLEAROFF
Import teak, maybe, carried by sea DRIFTWOOD
Isn't Ely embellished elegantly? INSTYLE
It cuts the pack ICEAXE
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Laurence looks terrible in blue CERULEAN
Money goes on fruit cake DOUGHNUT
Officer's quarters housing retired soldiers ENSIGN
One step up from the gutter KERB
Ought, with hesitation, to take responsibility SHOULDER
Poem about ace Italian painter VERONESE
Saw dog's name inside lead PROVERB
See man on board BISHOP
Settle wage increase PAYUP
Shuffling feet in the bazaar FETE
Stone pitcher CATAPULT
The corn crop's outstanding features? EARS
We are in the pink having taken gold for the French painter ROUSSEAU
Worker coming up about one to see Jacob's daughter DINAH