The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 22,276 - Aug 1 2001

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Clues Answers
A tree is more secure when pollarded OSIER
Antidote is perhaps a foot behind the bar COUNTERMEASURE
Attach Egyptian in triumph BESET
Bad weather bisecting the plateau can be focused TRAINABLE
Boy keeps birds in part of ship STERNSON
Club idiot tucking into cheese BRASSIE
Earl has desire to buttonhole male doctor for drug EPHEDRINE
Engineers rejected lad's shattered stone EMERALD
Falls once more when retreating from gunman NIAGARA
Fight about drunk returning weapon STILETTO
Force politician to wear revolutionary garland IMPEL
Girl upset about feature on sea urchin ECHINUS
Give performer gold for a charlatan PLAYACTOR
Heathen erred sporadically in various places HEREANDTHERE
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In a low-cut dress officer's about to remove DECOLLETE
Inch back towards oriental girl ELSIE
Many slim and lift weights CLEAN
Meet under bar when tight CLOSEFITTING
Movement of man in hazard ANDANTE
Not forgetting wine taken in raid in Scotland RETENTIVE
One gets support from eastern ally UNITE
Prince only eats one fish HALIBUT
Respect ruined after Ben's filled with shock, seeing apparition BROCKENSPECTRE
Staying in Nassau, Richard Strauss revealed he composed AURIC
Strange desire to keep uranium waste RESIDUE
Use to drive round Portugal SPEND
Waterproof for man initially immersed in water TARPAULIN
What about pious exploit for lapidary phrases EPITAPH