The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 21,959 - Jul 25 2000

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... he's right by his sacred river RALPH
1's acolyte seconds that passion, perhaps SHOPASSISTANT
Bad septicaemia killing last two in the continuum SPACETIME
Baseball player in knickers and vest SHORTSTOP
Beer from the cask, Vassili! KVASS
Birdie surpassed by Coleridge's handicap ... ALBATROSS
Call for melon in the freezer CRYOGEN
Could this be a negative bender? BEANO
Director of experimental (in-flight) movie? PILOT
Friedman's forces restoring credit to make money MARKETECONOMY
Gathering everything together under protest, starts to rise GETUP
Give the once-over once or twice? LOOKSEE
Has hit support for the supplicant HASSOCK
I might make allowances, possibly starting now. God! My pennies! SPENDINGMONEY
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I'm one Mr Hulot, on as a substitute IMITATION
Land of royal double trouble. RURITANIA
Like libretto's language, not a prescription to stir the heart DIGITALIN
Lowest female staff members ALTOS
Movement of cattle is turning south KINESIS
Nobbling race outsider could be right by me EMBRACERY
Old type of road stone METAL
Putting one's quarry at bay, say! TREEING
Sea creatures Athena utilised by extraction NAUTILI
So Milton's pair of sirens left without choice BLEST
Society leaving partisan destroyed port TRAPANI
The cure that's 'Buy now, pay later!' - their failing RETAILTHERAPY
The old revel in the black bat's reign NIGHTRULE
Time Ed Lear went off his rocker TREADLE