The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 18 - Feb 23 2009

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Clues Answers
A bad-tempered moment, we hear, caused by a puzzle ACROSTIC
Alerted about machine's pedal TREADLE
Borders in study, a deep red CRIMSON
Box of wine, for instance CASE
Car written off in Seoul, mini LIMOUSINE
Continue to crowd a chief PRESSAHEAD
Dance with boy attending ball? Not half! SAMBA
Dance with girl with 'it' SALSA
Difficult getting round in store HOARD
Dominant chap in group, Greek character with letters, reportedly ALPHAMALE
Drizzle put the kibosh on opening of market - it's unfair SCOTCHMIST
Dye girl applied to front of head, then back HENNA
Former player, demanding type EXACTOR
Her dad, I suspect, is one who resists change DIEHARD
Hot in pleasant alcove NICHE
In between small and sweet TWEE
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Name of distinctive character at end of novel LAURA
New arrangement for sax learned in his ragtime band? ALEXANDERS
Old flame modelled naked EXPOSED
Prints of Persian king accepting ring XEROXES
Quality attire, but misshapen ATTRIBUTE
Ring any number in region ARENA
Servant, male help MAID
Silence adult, senile GAGA
Small company left Cheshire city for an Essex town COLCHESTER
Stagger out of a labyrinth AMAZE
Star mops up various small things SUNDRIES
Stop in King's Cross, say STATION
Team members producing weapons SIDEARMS
Unknown female performer in the TV talent show XFACTOR
What the Treasury collects is ridiculous to Mexican INCOMETAX
Writer's article about a gloomy US city PASADENA