The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,309 - Nov 25 2004

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Appropriate epithet for flatulence, not all deception GASTRIC
Cooking recipe - use skewer? PIERCE
Cuban flourished without fish FIDEL
Desire terribly half the above RESIDE
Detective offers security to player SHER
Electricity supply makes Scouse bird suffer LIVERAIL
Fresh out of clothes? UNTIRED
Imported eggs move slowly during prohibition that's lifted from dish BOEUFSTROGANOFF
Interrupt the cricket and stay for the night STOP
Islands where sickness decreases rapidly? MALDIVES
Live like this, backing into horse and its food supply NOSEBAG
Mutineer decapitated in elevator needs help to survive LIFEBELT
New rifle with new trigger put in to furnish partner GIRLFRIEND
Our slum is inclined to founder ROMULUS
Clues Answers
Performed by singers restraining novice with a sedative CHLORAL
Restraint is a blow to a worker HANDCUFF
Rough cover for chimney HOODLUM
Search area for Scarlet Pimpernel EVERYWHERE
See 13 OVER
See 3 LOCK
Smart boy and girl alight on dish CHICKENMARYLAND
Space for the others to 13 22 here? RESTROOM
Taint that's beneath notice, possibly INFECTION
Tell all you feel before surgery OPENHEART
The girl in the electricity supply? INGRID
The speaker covering your eyes from behind maybe owes hugs GUESSWHO
Thespian, probably old, as male monarch STAGER
They say you are further up the heap (they say) URIAH