The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 22,395 - Dec 18 2001

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Clues Answers
A contentious issue from the continent AUSSIE
A ghost on losing direction ASPECT
A match for 'Thus Spake Zoroaster' AVESTA
A more pretentious homonym? One can't say APHONIA
Affected foreign aid from the French department LADIDA
American eye has failed to sum up SHAMUS
Anchor, getting out of fine mess and into predicament KNIFEEDGE
Beg the question in a vacuum AVOID
Buy sardines with it? Use cod fillets! ESCUDO
Choreographer's position in the company CRANKO
Coinage in some lingo or other NEOLOGISM
Combination of sex with marriage UNION
Coolness of dodgy gas fire done out of energy twice SANGFROID
Don't let the little woman play it! BANJO
Duncan's killer seen hanging by the neck SCARF
Flush to the heads of Conservative matrons? BLUERINSE
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Here comes the bride for a man with capital AISLE
Herein Radames, caught by his god, returning to a pastoral idyll ARCADIA
How Polonius was covered in embarrassment ARRAS
Ideal place for society to suspend rail travelling SHANGRILA
Jab from the weapon of El Cid? ELBOW
Mosaic entrance passage at 13 BARMIZVAH
Norma's invocation: give the role to a Joan Sutherland? CASTADIVA
One 'to kick against the pricks'? Let him bleed a little THIMBLE
Salt beef on the hoof with wings OXALATE
Seduced by a French fellow. Ecstasy! UNDONE
Sidearms ARSENAL
Smooth character motivating the rest of the children SANDMAN
Source of Columbus's sail GENOA
Supreme Court's inner sanctum initially had disturbance SANHEDRIN
Two presents not present NOWHERE
Welsh water taxi's introducing hidden depths here CABBALA