The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 21,685 - Sep 8 1999

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Clues Answers
Agents ensnared amoral character with bug CICADA
Bear left on time to participate in gambling system TOLERATE
Characters from Derby are upset by baker's product RYEBREAD
Chuck's dad's source of wine? ELDERBERRY
Coat sported, unoriginally, by fabled beast UNICORN
Conjuring house point for officer in America HOCUSPOCUS
Crippled gun, putting some hay in it STRICKEN
Derisory tax on dog food PALTRY
Dog's reported huff PEKE
German state's leader's gone somewhere further east RUSSIA
House erected in Lime Street SEMI
Introduction to the umpire's instep? PREFACE
Island business with excellent turnover IBIZA
Jabber of game POKER
Judicial distribution of conifers FORENSIC
Clues Answers
Knife-sharpener gives a smile, having agreed about saint GRINDSTONE
Letter to Greek man embracing Muse - half a half, say NUMERATOR
Line of prisoners pegged out, having received punishment against medical advice CONTRAINDICATED
Look cross about fool starting to wash decanters, for example GLASSWARE
Nothing, as it happens, on the green OLIVE
Opposite of core gay activist, perhaps, reaching majority OUTERMOST
Otter's not a total inversion of another aquatic mammal MUSKRAT
Passion sounds more complicated in EastEnders ARDOUR
Servant given a month in France and Germany MAID
Snake slept badly on top of decorator's equipment STEPLADDER
Splash out on 'Luxem-bourg in Bloom' SPLURGE
Tear into less risky yield SURRENDER
The fuzz appear in blue DOWN
Unquiet tree at one extreme or the other POLAR