The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 21,832 - Feb 28 2000

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Clues Answers
...dirty child on platform is even more dirty GRUBBIER
Account not rendered by historian ACTON
Boy game to help people across the Thames ALBERTBRIDGE
Chap going to kiss girl modelling art wear gets the bird MANXSHEARWATER
Characteristic of Persian cat in the distance? FURLONG
Club official sure in re art anyway TREASURER
Country where, for example, youth leader takes little part EGYPT
Dispense with outdoor party? DOWITHOUT
Drag Wendy Hiller to place of execution TOWERHILL
Fearful of being socially acceptable in island circles TIMOROUS
Fruit to place round kitchen fireplace BLENHEIMORANGE
Having taken on cargo at lake port... LADEN
He tries to give confidence to underwriter ASSURER
It's a fair bet doctor takes old French soldier to flat EVENMONEY
Clues Answers
Lasted longer than couple embraced by roué, perhaps OUTWORE
Managed to take back outside most of the crosspiece TRANSOM
Mary familiar with battlefield in book MOLLFLANDERS
Partly train a director to cope with bottom of recession, perhaps NADIR
Poem about bun involved a summer hat SUNBONNET
Promised to become enmeshed ENGAGED
Right hand turn Jag takes in garden RHUBARB
Sailor takes governor to church ABBEY
Sailors holding girl up to see bird RAVEN
Seldom met with portion of food RAREBIT
Society girl meeting poet in tube, perhaps DEBUTANTE
Tired after stroke to point BLOWN
Unfathomable element in baby's maltreatment ABYSMAL
Waxed enthusiastic about figure in a red jacket RAVED