The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,469 - Jun 1 2005

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Clues Answers
Arrive without vessel for dessert COMPOTE
Behold musical band going round that capital city COLOMBO
Big bird is 'bony' OSTEAL
Body tissue that's reconstituted in the lad's clone ACHILLESTENDON
Classical name sending message from the ladies' circle? NOMEN
Family member pleasant, full of energy NIECE
Food pioneer found out, keeping very quiet PEPPERONI
I made waves about hospital department providing for mental illness DEMENTIA
Improve, having married priest - nothing to reprove MELIORATE
In corn I see the region's birds ORNIS
Listener (going back) seen as home for fashionable poet RAINE
Make contact with head to establish suitability MEETNESS
Make fun of operatic character getting caught MIMIC
Man buried under his female ancestor's town EVESHAM
Clues Answers
Material in test given to secretary? TEMPORAL
Part of firework display with music out of this world ROCKET
Phony language not what you get in the silly season? NEWSPEAK
Princess who works as a secretary in Brussels? EUROPA
Problematical situation to bore chaps in group half slouching around? SEMIRETIREMENT
Screams on a tug'd send us scurrying? COASTGUARDSMEN
See problem when one enters blessed place ELYSIUM
Ship won't necessarily flourish MAYFLOWER
The debtor somehow under an obligation to settle? BETROTHED
The horrible situation 'e put up with on account of Lily? HELLEBORE
Valley searched thoroughly, endlessly COMBE
Was lazier than the Piggy-wig in tree? SATINWOOD
Writer takes walk to meadow, flanked by birds STEPHENLEACOCK
Yapper's joke about sailors capsizing GASBAG