The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 24,656 - Mar 25 2009

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Article by informal relative becoming academic text THESIS
Asian citizen I see being mistreated around judge BEIJINGESE
Bill that is, over time, providing a crucial check ACIDTEST
Dainty little daughter covering one leg, as requested PETITIONED
Direction to slow down tune trio ruined RITENUTO
Fearful hen I can, oddly, put in kind of curry CHICKEN
Fit for match between the Spanish and the French, one great back ELIGIBLE
It's bad, tucking into something to eat — very bad DEVILISH
Maid of Orleans uplifted, guided and elevated ENNOBLED
Money deposited in bank safe, but only to begin with DIBS
Mother has to purchase, we hear, dear kind of fish MUMBAI
Name Dianne differently NADINE
Name of man backing another in Spanish city LEON
Name taken by poet, strangely unread NERUDA
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New name given Jane, after moving east JEAN
No real alterations seen in 2, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 19, 22 across and 22 down NOMINAL
Old king's literary pseudonym OHENRY
One rule I had set up for Indian festival DIWALI
Players collectively demolish extra food SIDEDISH
Scary thing, Frenchman turning on fellow conservative FRIGHTENER
See 12 DUCK
See 15 CHANGES
See 4 CHENNAI
Solitary types disoriented in chain store ANCHORITES
Stone block with solid middle installed in part of year MONOLITH
They are mostly awfully coarse EARTHY
What Blair became before spring ORWELL
Wrongly removed tube buried in one part of garden ABDUCTED