The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 24,399 - May 27 2008

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Clues Answers
Actress and comedienne who's accompanied by old brute and old composer WHOOPIGOLDBERG
Breaking through layer, early moisture acts oddly - it rises and falls TIDEWATER
Character left for holiday destination AIRPORT
Compound of nitrates in old boys' network? TRAINSET
Courage shown before something flagged a shade BOTTLEGREEN
Deal with content of briefs TACKLE
Doing backstroke, swim round lake with fish - such as this PILCHARD
Dud pud DUFF
Ease pain, beginning to pump the contents of my stomach? PALLIATE
Fiddle with necktie enough not to be taken seriously TONGUE
Film of the Labour Party between 1980 and 1983? FOOTAGE
Filthy thing close to eye STYE
Get plastered on one knee, perhaps SENDER
Grow to love job as scold TAKETOTASK
Clues Answers
Man perhaps not the first, as first man alone describing T-shirt? SLEEVELESS
Need, when furious, to contain what one loses when so angry ENRAGED
Note pops up in a column? SPINAL
Paddington's stomach BEAR
Place among collector's items SITE
Poetess shaves - about time for the queen? PAMAYRES
Rush payment CHARGE
See 24 INCHEEK
Short girl eaten by mole SKIMPY
Tragedies making sister sad DISASTERS
Upper-class bigot is to peer, roughly, as middle class to lower? PETITBOURGEOIS
Welsh town penniless under English, Lloyd George once held PEMBROKE
Where fruit's held briefly INANUTSHELL
Wine dry, though lips not - that is the drink RIESLING