The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,942 - Mar 17 2006

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A bottle damaged soft surface of piece of furniture TABLETOP
A nine days' wonder on the throne of England? LADYJANEGREY
A wife endures - he's off with a farewell! AUFWIEDERSEHEN
After revolution cease holding power and flee ESCAPE
Aim to get prize money having crossed river PURPOSE
Bad habit maybe, missing a hundred in sum ADDITION
Become discourteous when receiving king or queen GERTRUDE
Chair for carrying little boy into school hospital SEDAN
Damage outside Eastern women's quarters HAREM
Date set for match WEDDINGDAY
Favourite holding love lines in verse POETRY
Given a good screw? TIGHTENED
Hairy bunch in union's taking knock TUSSOCK
It's the end of the night's viewing? Finish depressed CLOSEDOWN
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Lame, injured, too out of sorts for play ROMEOANDJULIET
Little child unwell, boy with lowered temperature CHILLED
Long wood PINE
Mean little devil residing in the heavens SKIMPY
Nasty old bishop greeting dean outside HORRID
Party man among least agile STAG
Reference point for a London theatre CRITERION
Rubbish left out in lane at front of house DRIVE
Somehow it's crime to imprison holy philosopher EMPIRICIST
The best stuff to cover wrinkles? CREAM
This is the sixth! ODDNUMBER
Warbler to bring news of death sentence? BLACKCAP
We yearn to change - time for resolution? NEWYEAR
Where progress is impossible and a U-turn must be made? ENDOFTHEROAD