The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 24,615 - Feb 5 2009

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Clues Answers
A Scottish couturier returns without mercury ANEROID
Almost general tutorials CLASSES
Badly arranged sailing in familiar sea MISALIGNED
Central one of 28 MIDDLE
Close blind TIGHT
Confining a child, but not upstairs! GROUNDING
Edge of the tennis court? ADVANTAGE
Excellent wine in decline DIVINE
Exotic sacred trees CEDARS
Fruit that's big in New York APPLE
God's hybrid rose EROS
Horse among mules out for run SMUGGLE
It's pretty to behold what Platonic friends discuss at leisure LOVEIN
Keen little prince WEEP
King had this one ambition DREAM
Clues Answers
New directions signs for Channel NARROWS
One weighed down by scruples BALANCE
Original trees at forest's end FIRST
Players and poets LYRISTS
Primary part of a monogram INITIAL
See 12 IDLENESS
Singer's invention sounds like a drill SEWINGMACHINE
Swear word PROMISE
They have pockets for cigars and change CARDIGANS
Translator of 'The German Eating Fish' DECODER
Very nasty food after fine cocktail FIENDISH
Were these Marathon winners possibly Asian, then? ATHENIANS
Where bank directors make their cuts BREADBOARD
Where the government is on display? CABINET