The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 21,711 - Oct 8 1999

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Acolyte badly hurt by firework THURIFER
Article taken from Barbican turns out to be antacid BICARB
Bears getting final put-down, unfortunately KOALAS
Bookkeeper's sign for rainstorm LIBRARIAN
Certain line a boxer takes? INEXORABLE
Coped with some awful rot DECOMPOSE
Emblem of French depravity DEVICE
Fine imposed on fictitious tale is indescribable INEFFABLE
Fishes' fingerprints? DABS
Light soldier on animal's back KLEIG
Locations where things worth seeing are reported SITES
Lupine character with fixed semi-grin ISENGRIM
Middle East country filling pies cooked by Italian painter PIRANESI
Mixture the French found in turning over molten rock AMALGAM
Note always turning into another note BREVE
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Part of flag - one among many HOIST
Poem composed in even stages, perhaps STAGNESEVE
Promise of employment ENGAGEMENT
Records of air-conditioning in sideshow DIARIES
Sailor wanted to be an ecclesiastic ABBE
Shrub found at river ski resort TAMARISK
Some other Semitic language ERSE
Time to dress in worthless stuff? GARBAGE
To one Pope, it spelt danger ALITTLELEARNING
Ugly finish in untidy set is an eyesore STYE
Unusual poem about air in shops EMPORIA
Vagrant I entertain out East? ITINERANT
Workman holding broken bridle for Pope Gregory HILDEBRAND
Writer's cloak CAPOTE