The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,031 - Jan 6 2004

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Clues Answers
'Drop them!' - proverbial expression in Asian city BOMBSAWAY
5 down with firm religious ethos COZEN
A less than meaty bit of science paper, pejoratively speaking SCRAG
Adaptable character making mess of clean home CHAMELEON
Boy from Northern Ireland turned outside ERNIE
Bridge hands in training get something to write on PARCHMENT
Broadcaster dropping by to take bearings and mislead DISSEMBLE
Conductor, oddly, became hot BEECHAM
Decoration for eunuch holding a knight up CAPARISON
Do talk about Spain! CHEAT
Doubts this planet's seen 7 WONDERS
Dramatist receiving degree from IT officer WEBMASTER
Enclosure for farm animals or duck, almost Dickensian inside SHEEPCOTE
Force to renew involvement with fruit GREENGAGE
Get hold of deceased VIP NABOB
Heard someone doing wrong song - 'Where the Dead Men Go' CINERARIA
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Italian recipe involving one chicken's head to be plucked PIZZICATO
Money wrapped in note to scrubber LOOFA
Novelist and teller of tales GRASS
Patient support for tasteless plot SICKBED
Prove equal to the contest MATCH
Puppet producing a lot of litter? CATSPAW
Regrouped after Geri's London catastrophe GREATFIRE
Ruler keeping nothing back from cook ROAST
Seafood that's the object of heart-warming exercise COCKLES
Sister admits Shed is God NUMEN
Skin trouble salesman gets from vegetable MANGETOUT
Trumpet's first to be replaced by piano in chamber groups raised in flat landscape STEPPES
Unconventionally packaged spirit aurally recounted by 23 down? TINDRUM
Understood to be coming back somewhat tosticated TACIT
With charm and cunning, taking little time SWEETLY
Woodworker's companion BEECH