The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 21,940 - Jul 3 2000

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Blooming beast of burden that has trouble getting up CAMELLIA
Buttons said to represent danger to sailors BELLBUOY
Did this hen lay the golden eggs? GUINEA
Fraudulent scheme in a soap by-product? BUBBLE
It's frivolous having a tax about it LEVITY
Its vicar was always ready to accept a new sovereign BRAY
Made to smile by a thought? AMUSED
Match for a football player STRIKER
Mortality figures are a complete write-off DEADLOSS
No racehorse alive is one DEADCERT
Place that was hellish before getting public transport EREBUS
Pondered over the beef, we hear, and warmed drink MULLEDWINE
Rang the bell as instructed, say TOLLED
Refinement, for example, in an eastern weapon ELEGANCE
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Ritual miracle one produces CEREMONIAL
She made her name in production of Hamlet THELMA
Sideways? BYPATHS
The advantage of keenness EDGE
They go along with kinky corsets ESCORTS
They're widely grown for eating BROADBEANS
This may lead us to the light CLUE
Time off for his lady-love, perhaps HOLIDAYS
Twice appearing as an understudy DOUBLE
What dogs do around trees BARK
What gunrunners take part in? ARMSRACE
What the driver needs on the whole is to be sober TEETOTAL
When it leaks, it's hard to stop BRAKEFLUID
Where one lives a little in Panama, for example HABITAT