The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 22,938 - Sep 17 2003

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Bird finding warmth in river WHEATEAR
Bird which fawns? CREEPER
Boasted to the ship's company CREW
Contended for backing of French four VIED
Direction taken by front vessel? LEADERSHIP
Dream of clergyman on lake REVERIE
Fix again part of state servant's retirement RESET
Formality of leading performer at church STARCH
Girl beaten, but by no means confounded UNABASHED
Having more relish, trite as it may seem TASTIER
He is notoriously hard on former player EXACTOR
Inoffensive weapon left in Nazi leader's possession HARMLESS
Instrument to measure study in Hertfordshire HARPENDEN
Leave soldiers to start division in France DEPARTMENT
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Market expression for a girl MARTHA
Might Pinter later mean to become an MP? ENTERPARLIAMENT
Not seldom met with in soft endearments OFTEN
One in a hundred may be a weed CENTAURY
Precious stone for refined girl? CULTIVATEDPEARL
Provoke girl to take part in strange rite IRRITATE
Reconstruction of Paris with energy wins commendation PRAISE
Retraction by friend in poem PALINODE
Secret container in a strange setting ARCANUM
See the French one on low marsh ground VLEI
The opposite of talk CONVERSE
Tone down a paint TEMPERA
Watery pigment? LAKE
Worshipped by a party radical ADORED