The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,250 - Sep 17 2004

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Clues Answers
A loose pig is running wild, so say sorry APOLOGISE
Cover for sleeper makes bottom grow bigger BEDSPREAD
Dance with spirit, back half visible RUMBA
Dear husband no longer preoccupied EXPENSIVE
Difficult to hold an award up, Ms Kerr DEBORAH
Experience lower than life UNDERGO
Fibres working loose in underpants BRIEFS
Flawed agate, black inside, is soaked in boiling water TEABAG
Fly in trial upside down over Southeast TSETSE
High-minded killjoy gets in the way of treating milk UPRIGHT
Influence group of journalists in the outhouse SHAPED
Lay out fashionable underwear INVEST
Mixed choir holds onto dead flower ORCHID
Most obscure deed unfinished, leading to annoyance DEEPEST
No-hoper holds false idol to be one who rows GONDOLIER
One captured by formal King of Troy PRIAM
Clues Answers
Re-run bath cured pain HEARTBURN
Read about Blair backing restraint DAMPER
Red tape cut and decreased in thickness TAPERED
Rich king keeps it dark when standing up MIDAS
Shy people round the North take tiny steps MINCE
Sign of island growth CAPRICORN
Sound of car horn that is hard on the chief HONKING
Sticky substance makes you fall again RESIN
Stretched up, standing and unfolding NARRATING
This type of dog must get wise about America SAUSAGE
Two boozers getting round us, being uncivilised BARBAROUS
Up in arms freebooter is beheaded IRATE
Whisper some of Spinoza's ideas ASIDE
Wild flower in shadow shot up DOGROSE
Work gathered up in time TEMPO
Worthless money given to Kitty TINPOT