The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 26,085 - Nov 13 2009

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Clues Answers
A case exemplifying 'ignorance is bliss'? PANDORASBOX
Achievement of female before lunch? FEAT
Book by a tennis champion ASHE
Content of oceans seen in new atlases SEASALT
Eat ice cream? Something tot will tuck into CONSUME
Explorer, angry leader going out ROSS
Fine line gone over by industrialist STRIA
Frank is very cold, lacking in vitality FREE
Home-worker is dull, one about to become alluring CHARISMATIC
Irritable with no yen for ordeal TEST
Joint that's little short of sordid SEAM
Man with Russian name is after British gold BORIS
Matter I need to get sorted, being decisive DETERMINATE
Pet embraced by senior set STIFFEN
Poet, one entertained by English group ELIOT
Puzzled volunteers look inside a ship ATALOSS
Clues Answers
Rodents in boarding-house bedroom? Kill! DORMICE
Romanticise about anti-evolutionary theory of the universe CREATIONISM
Rubbish drunkard's fallen over by side of path TOSH
Second person's article on drug THEE
Slag off copper standing up in traffic TRADUCE
Something in the computer? Mum's not interested, we hear MOTHERBOARD
Son, a dandy and one with great charm SMASHER
Speak pompously in an office in Rome PONTIFICATE
Stylish fellow given payment, a paltry amount CHICKENFEED
Take out love maiden with oomph OMIT
Test in which a learner gets nothing right to start with ORAL
The pick of English literature, No. 1 for enthusiasts ELITE
There's nothing good about wicked person OGRE
Thin metal sword FOIL
This oldster unexpectedly chosen for second interview? SHORTLISTED
Woman in New Orleans became pale having lost daughter BLANCHE