The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 22,161 - Mar 20 2001

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Clues Answers
'Power of Maths': record with which member secures unlikely hit LOGARITHM
25 is a friend to women WALLY
Alien retired, retreating from argument DEBATE
Back again with golden girl for 18 ROWENA
Ban this concoction! ABSINTH
Cheeky chap on fiddle and piano SCAMP
Churchman securing a supplier of energy REACTOR
Clubbing with Spooner's scalpel? NIGHTLIFE
Crash involving ship in, for instance, conscription service PRESSGANG
Drunk goes for pre-salted nuts PLASTERED
Elevenses for publishers' assistant CUPPA
Everybody Russian keeps a model 13 ALLIGATOR
False turn in the toilets BOGUS
Food past its sell-by date contains source of pandemic STAPLE
Leaves on equal terms QUITS
Live with faction pursuing heartless rogue RESIDE
Clues Answers
Meeting to vex proverbially patient character TRYST
Musician who gives false accounts? FIDDLER
Obligation to take turn in first performance DEBUT
Pig's head in cream - recipe sent back by member of class REPTILE
Plant from the Eastern Isles SESELI
Russian ruler with garden tool for Scottish hero IVANHOE
Saucy striker, perhaps FORWARD
Serious bridge opponents first produce artwork ENGRAVE
Shed takes on mission as a favour BYREQUEST
Shorty goes to Sweden in pain STITCH
Snake receiving religious instruction from music maker MARIMBA
Someone intellectually challenged to dot Is, perhaps IDIOT
Spy drinking artist's spirits MORALE
Swiss 18, losing nothing, gets let out HELVETIAN
Tenant with smaller quantity of drugs LESSEE
Where to relax with light music after church EASYCHAIR