The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 22,474 - Mar 22 2002

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Accelerator can noisily exceed 100 mph? About right! BETATRON
Animal producing beef, good cut ROAN
Bow taken by little bird? KNOT
Buffer state head meets East European POLISHER
Bully leading batting order in game DOMINEER
Current member's snobbish, hollow and cocky IMPUDENT
Cut right at end, perhaps TRUNCATED
Dish in lively nightclub is heartless HOTPOT
Drink to keep girl on the right lines SHERRY
Father in tears at time of birth PARENTAGE
Find touch PUTONESFINGERON
Gun to make soldiers safe, reportedly REPEATER
Horseman breaking a rein, out of the hunt EQUESTRIAN
Lake's former name is name taken by a state on the up NYASA
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Low sound and soft to carry with difficulty HUMP
Made to hold in one's wind, perhaps INFLATABLE
Monastic, or of this world? OBLATE
One has placed an order for The Times CHRONOLOGIST
Pleased to have one of these flowers, in short GLADIOLI
Resigning, reputation having fallen STANDINGDOWN
Rings for ties, American style SLEEPERS
Sailing ship makes bay from the sound BARQUE
Slides and photographs taken for talk CHUTES
Slurred song, gathered round musical instrument LIBELLED
Son to Holy Joe is a rare youth SPRIG
Take a dim view of mole's noise PEER
That lot banked gold, the result of speculation THEORY