The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,998 - May 22 2006

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A border to attract attention, it's said AHEM
A head on one's shoulders CAPE
A number overthrow an ill-bred person CHURL
After a degree, I drop out from this subject MATHS
Be sick on board as ship leaves port SAILS
Bill's opponents NOES
Chap doesn't get any younger but still has control MANAGES
Decline to acknowledge applause - and retire Takeyourbow
European standard-bearer POLE
Frank about the future? FORTHCOMING
Game explorer POLO
Go-between in an intrigue LIAISON
Has new aspiration to become a ruler SHAH
He gets priceless ideas FREETHINKER
He's not paid for taking a friend over the old city AMATEUR
Lear production set back part of Hamlet LAERTES
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Mercury will go down with it - so may others COLD
New masters selected academic groups STREAMS
One who is at liberty to be extravagant? Freespender
One who prosecutes a wrongful user SUER
One whose meteoric career is almost over FALLINGSTAR
Ordered select Eastern instrument CELESTE
Passing over an offender, a convention no longer used EXTRADITION
Pole among a number returning home NEST
Possibly more the sort of thing 16 across students deal with THEOREM
Quick way in which newspapers were once printed FLEETSTREET
Signal fear ALARM
Takes charge of production and dominates Runstheshow
Taking the middle course is for us OURS
Targets, we hear, for a left-wing politician MARX
Tools that break laws AWLS
Tower encountered round Iran, perhaps MINARET