The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 22,074 - Dec 6 2000

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Clues Answers
A magnet to get your gun out? DRAW
An officer and a gentleman? I've got a friend at last ULTIMATE
Ancient bus conductor on the gin RATTLETRAP
Antipasto (mince - I made it!) - not for Bond! EMANCIPATIONIST
Beg for cake? SPONGE
Brand I can do with one finger TYPE
Break promise to French boy and some of the guests RENEGUE
Composer at the end of months playing tennis BERNSTEIN
Direction to bury a mate in play WINTER
Dress in rising water - they need free oxygen AEROBES
Fast entertainment - deep's the solution? TURNOFSPEED
Girl of 20 23, pirated edition PERDITA
I'm a businessman, one hundred per cent! IDEAL
Language that goes badly in the hillside BRAILLE
Clues Answers
Let's sing to Silvia, that she is 90, in Pisces EXCELLING
One with two ears, possibly? That's crazy IDIOTIC
Pestilential fellow born on a boat BLIGHTER
Prosecuted corrupt abbey and its leader during way-out cat-call in the 20 23 EXITPURSUED
Sailor told to go away ABSENT
See 20 STALE
See1 BYABEAR
Sometime lonely, now more like a squash MELON
Strapping youth on grass - remove your butt! THONG
Tell and sell RETAIL
The last word in ballet dancing is very bad LAMENTABLE
This type of bid is top, not bottom NOTRUMP
To put money on and be in debt, say: it goes up in smoke TOBACCO
What sort of gun is the Lee-Enfield? DOUBLEBARRELLED