The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 22,987 - Nov 13 2003

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Clues Answers
A painter is artificial, if not natural FANTIN
An officer is beginning to train one without special skills GENERALIST
Artist holding recipe for soup BORSCH
Author having go as gender bender GEORGESAND
Be very heartless in company BEVY
Bell sounds for fight DINGDONG
Blighters start to court publicity CADS
Burn more than a pirate SEAROVER
Community centre, by golly, oddly unattractive UGLY
Get out of bed for our pot shot? UPROOT
Given a shiny loco without any rails INVEIGHS
In harmony with one in a new key AGREEING
Intrude for an hour mid-morning HORNIN
Making a noise? Jolly good! RATTLING
Clues Answers
Mock some travellers at Zeebrugge ERSATZ
Monster with no drink to knock back? GORGON
Moving cautiously, say, to admit a transgression EASING
Oil producer making composer take a test BERGAMOT
Old headmaster giving Orlando maths revision THOMAS
See 15 LATOUR
See 8 ARNOLD
Shakespearean king's daughter depicted by Stubbs IMOGEN
Shakespearean king's mother going up river or down under ELINOR
Successful prose pours out PROSPEROUS
Undemonstrative Conservative getting on with it COLD
We raised a bloom, a monster WEREWOLF
Wicked home in America without love VILLAINOUS
Womble country BULGARIA