The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 22,380 - Nov 30 2001

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A treaty distributed by carrier TEATRAY
A vessel in choice metal PLATINUM
Big toe cracked turning hot tap! Get the bone doctor OSTEOPATH
Boil for two months DECOCT
Bring about the demise, say, of Santa Claus SLEIGH
Centrepiece Peregrine ordered, but not the right one EPERGNE
Eating hours starting to be considered uneconomic TIMECONSUMING
Filthy place to keep fish cold STEELY
Flag of a military man we lay claim to COLOURS
Got a huge C for Clumsy GAUCHE
Heard to deserve the bird ERNE
Hercules? He's off to raise the dough LUCRE
Hint to learner: get in prompt CLUE
Imperative to include ring, a revolutionary facial adornment MOUSTACHE
Joker gets most of the drink; that's funny COMICAL
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Kept up, so it's claimed MAINTAINED
Man in kind of shirt turned up with old shoulder badge EPAULET
Man to man in Cumbria CARL
Not quite over being wound up ENDING
Obnoxious creatures primed with lubricant turning bright scarlet VERMILION
Occasion on which a student is working FUNCTIONAL
Part of helmet found by child in street and even put back CHINSTRAP
Peculiar seaside complaint DISEASE
See 25 ISLE
Shakespearean court with detectives about BARDIC
Six points ahead, Herb - fancy! ENVISAGE
Stirring kind of voice ACTIVE
The Amerindian God is to be believed CREED
Unfixed one part of the street parade AFLOAT