The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 21,656 - Aug 5 1999

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3, cased by recidivist pickpockets, has gone pear-shaped SPHEROID
About a serious offence round a hazardous place CASINO
Adopt an attitude about powder overdose? It helps to get the message home POSTALCODE
Bearing gifts carelessly addressed? PRESENCE
Char, they say, is the Playboy writer SYNGE
Charles, 'e went crazy for a classical 3 HERACLES
Come to know the foreign set-up in 10's development REALISE
For Sisyphus, it's just the job NEVERENDINGTASK
Ironic nonsense may bring the house down DRYROT
Is Helen bound over to be free of obligation? UNBEHOLDEN
It's fairly hot, yet sometimes chilly, they say REDPEPPER
Lewd clues, set to entrap 3 LECHEROUS
Look at hold up PEEK
Macho character cried for Arthur, the poet RIMBAUD
Clues Answers
Maybe Rex and 3 at school found a dinosaur THEROPOD
Mr Park? HYDE
Perfidious state when skin problem absorbs 3 (American) all covered in braid TREACHEROUSNESS
Put the case set in place POSITED
See a 'oly confused Jesuit LOYOLA
Sort of setter embracing 6? Stupid! BOVINE
Swell finish to middle jump for rider ADDENDUM
Swift Nellie? DEAN
Take advantage of a bold stroke EXPLOIT
Take out part-timer, a secretary bird ERASE
The Ideal woman's circle HERO
The new free love bar in the Big Apple? NOVELTY
The thinner first-class accent ACETONE
This 3 got cold in a surging sea ACHILLES