The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 22,550 - Jun 19 2002

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(and 16) Determined to remain a committed bachelor? SINGLE
...all the same, he set Houdini some tricks to get out of ISOMETRIC
A hunky old cabinet-maker? CHIPPENDALE
An angel in retreat? BACKER
Clay forms each summer MEERSCHAUM
Country leather? MOROCCO
Couplet rewritten eight times OCTUPLE
Flat heads of valves and plugs in dynamos VAPID
Food out East EATS
Game played by the Queen? ROYALTENNIS
Goneril, for example, makes it with Regan INGRATE
Greek goddess in charge of deserts NEMESIS
It makes for a protracted smoking habit CIGARETTEHOLDER
It's teeth can be hair-raising COMB
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Look inside the last bit of cheese for a parasite HAIREEL
Maps of possible storm locations? ENCEPHALOGRAPHS
Marauding crowds ruining Rhodes HORDES
Nice foreign recipes PRECISE
One among Grenada's exotic plants GARDENIAS
Picture that is about 'Time', perhaps IMAGE
Roughness of a pyrites compound ASPERITY
See 7 MINDED
See wind blowing stern forward ENDWISE
Taken in, but not quite defeated EATEN
The animal found furthest from zoo AARDVARK
The hangman used it at the end... NOOSE
The tail end of a decapitated dormouse cut up UROSOME
Throws a banquet in the garden BEDSPREADS