The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 21,979 - Aug 17 2000

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Clues Answers
1 23 and 26 are enemies: plot incompetently at separating them? FOOTPLATEMEN
A quick coffee? ESPRESSO
At the heart of remembered sleep, let's start to misappropriate EMBEZZLE
Awfully fine story, too good to put into words? INEFFABLE
Boy's ambition to go with Virgin ere end appears? ENGINE
Caveman partly on song, a sacred one AVEMARIA
Changed over, on, or off SWITCHED
Contracts among sets that may be false INDENTURES
Cubist, second half first, with companion round hardwood tree QUEBRACHO
Dog going right across? ROVER
Fireman associated with vampires STOKER
Guns, if raised, back original work FIREARMS
Jo is Queen, as I wanted, having that mysterious quality JENE
Pooh's hums - even the cows can do them with increased forward pressure WHENPUSHCOMESTO
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Principal expression at Roundhill getsgoing STARTERMOTOR
Put down one's nose? SNUB
Saying 'When' ought to show what you've had ENOUGH
See 1 DRIVER
See 22 SAISQUOI
See 5 SHOVE
See 5 across NAME
So-and-so vicar's baptismal request? WHATSHIS
The fossil that wasn't one broken outside the menagerie EOZOON
The oriental heaven is a form of cold storage ESKY
Tommy's flowers have lost their tops ATKINS
Vegetable cooked by a cleric without energy CELERIAC
Warm places in the valley the Ordnance Survey has correctly included INGLENOOKS