The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 21,896 - May 12 2000

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1Standard credit when supporting quads YARDSTICK
Beat time in HQ BASTE
Bird with grit, a music-maker SANDPIPER
Blow the directors! I have the controls DASHBOARD
Colourless flat INSIPID
Copper backing for chimney's unserviceable - cloudy mass results CUMULUS
Deed, say, upsetting, as sorrowful one could be SADEYED
Diner, perhaps, placed between king and duke's relatives KINDRED
English actor run possibly as a storyteller RACONTEUR
Firm place in church for thick black liquid COALTAR
Fish left around here in France: more for Will? CODICIL
Golf property round bush, somehow, in tip? CLUBHOUSE
Mixed muesli about right for disorder MISRULE
Note uprising ropes in crude strength BRAWN
Old tree: 50 years? ELDERLY
One could be stuck up one GUMTREE
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One in deep yen for stage LONGLEG
One's the same as another SYNONYM
Plant class in US universities IVYLEAGUE
Play with tin scraps in an unsuitable way INAPTLY
Ship's funds going west SLOOP
Some useful outhouses on the Irish Sea LOUTH
Spot produced by insect mostly LOCUS
Support the record reserves BACKLOG
The city's to the fore, we hear LEEDS
The French in their way backing Swiss mathematician EULER
The tot's pop? DADDY
Tries PE after injury suspension RESPITE
Vessel with reduced depth in petrol not to be reported? SSBJUDICE
What's gone wriggling into fish basket? CONGEREEL
Wires could be passed transversely CROSSED
Worry as part of Tweed is turbulent DISTURB