The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 24,452 - Jul 28 2008

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Clues Answers
A second TV is an advantage ASSET
A thespian, conductor and novelist ISHERWOOD
A trashy novel not often seen in public now ASHTRAY
Addict trousered purses USER
Aesthete and student seduced by slim French relative DILETTANTE
Author who's written movingly about the ending THOREAU
Baker cooked cracking meal BREAKFAST
Biblical kingdom with Hebrews in it SHEBA
Black and blue? BAND
Card sharp's bound over TAROT
City swindle? On the contrary! RIPON
Extremist cult ran cover-up ULTRA
Family, friends and cohabitants HOUSEMATES
Fools most of the people ASSES
Get rid of drug in a tight spot SCRAPE
Have trouble containing disease and thus let oneself down ABSEIL
He hums Beethoven's Third BEE
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Inhabitants of Kazan start a riot TATARS
It's a horrible old Indian custom SATI
Live with Rupert? BEAR
Musical instrument not unknown in Japanese city KOTO
Old curses dogging the Greeks THEBANS
Perhaps Olivier's performing at three? THEATRE
Plants start to excrete enzyme PROTEASE
Prime Minister, once married to Camilla, changed name MACMILLAN
Report rank fish PLAICE
Reproductive activity described by euphemism - or in a coarse way? BRUTALLY
Reserved burial place GRAVE
Sticks around, excessively pleased with oneself SMUG
Thief has central part in criminal trials LARCENIST
Two states about to desert Obama? DEMOCRAT
Unfinished work on the CIA INCHOATE
Vote in favour of holding a king for a long time YEARS