The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,224 - Aug 18 2004

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Clues Answers
... but now pretty? Elucidate EXPLAIN
2 to say 'Are you in debt?' DUO
A little cheese, a quiet menace in a coal mine WHITEDAMP
Acuity in 27 called for a knife or a lawyers' profit ANEYEFORA
Ancient cross featuring heavenly being's shortened lines ANGERLY
Assume one should be clad in mail POSIT
Champion half of 13 ACE
Click - there's Hick out - horror! SCHRECKLICHKEIT
Collector of string less bulky? GLEANER
Deal with wind TRADE
Give food and drink to judge concerned with call for silence REFRESH
Head off a French colour current in the Balkans LEU
Heather, I call some of it ERICA
Hell for man around frequently with a cuppa in the old days DISHOFTEA
I leave French deity among worthies in Roman theatre ODEUM
I prove the fool a philosopher ASSAYER
Clues Answers
I'm tremendously keen to dissipate fat and I can! FANATIC
Inlet by the sea? That's a horse of another colour BAYMARE
Ringer at home to one composer and three painters BELLINI
Royal Society eating hat? Not quite, just a lozenge RHOMBUS
Sabbatical return of r-raid without quarter YEAROFF
Scots out in island in Malaysia SARAWAK
See 1 Across GROSSMITH
See 5 ANOBODY
See 9 BARGAIN
Some notification for new unfinished hell - hell? Over my dead body! NOTIFICANHELPIT
Tail off a horse in personal memoranda ANA
Tenor note in spotted tile DOMINGO
Those responsible for 5 4 draw goose eggs in the modern fashion GEORGEANDWEEDON
We are inclined to write 'Dear Sir' and argue GUARDIANREADERS
Well found in comparatively modern chateau LAFITTE
Young and old beginners in climbing scared over their getting involved with Bond in the record book DIARYOF