The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 22,600 - Aug 16 2002

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'Ne plus ultra', so far as this region goes! THULE
6 is underlined STRESSED
Agree to a rise, we're told ASSENT
Airline cuts revealing sums of spare cash BALANCES
Amusing items in the auction? LOTSOFFUN
Beef and game GROUSE
Blue wine is a washout SADSACK
Do a dry run? Here goes - bottom's down! REHEARSE
Doctor Dylan's MA presented to Don Giovanni LADYSMAN
Elated, magnetic? Get away! MANIC
Gain the same standard uniform EQUAL
Grant is held up by student peccadilloes ACCEPT
Hardy hero taking good puff before award ADJUDGE
In hall, grand parties promenade ¿ every one of them CONCERT
One is opposed to bishop greeting trade union? What a bloomer! ANTIRRHINUM
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One's taken up by the painter with a handshake MAHLSTICK
Prima dona taking into her veins something impounded by state prosecutor DIVA
River ordinance incorporated within the month JORDAN
Rubbed shoulders, maybe, with state elder MASS
See 12 AGED
Sound of a ship's cannon? ARMOFTHESEA
Spaniard is given a part: the continental Scotsman? CASTILIAN
Subsequent article left on one side LATERAL
The French left Munich man in time to reach Burgundy CHAMBERTIN
The outcome of a big splash out o-on flash do? NOAHSFLOOD
Unbalanced and unhappy star takes back TV trophy, sick at heart ASYMMETRIC
Utterly wrong tense TAUT
Verrucas repelled Jack STRAW
Virgin is indifferent? UNTOUCHED
Where scullions knew their place DOWNSTAIRS