The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 22,526 - May 22 2002

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A bread-like fruit ANANAS
A lake not easily ruffled PLACID
Belt proclaiming a Knight Bachelor SURCINGLE
Christopher Marlowe's last predator KITE
Clergyman Paul, an American hero going to North Dakota REVEREND
Crazy flutters BATS
Fought as law bred free-for-all BRAWLED
Galloping cancer seen in second birth RENASCENCE
Game belonging to the past? Nonsense! BACKGAMMON
Glasses raised at L'Opera LORGNETTE
I left command to the artillery ORDNANCE
Investment specialist? OUTFITTER
Irish group playing Bach roles BACHELORS
It's a wild year for a cat? EYRA
Landing strip RUNNER
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Les canadiens, for example FRENCHCANADIANS
Man in a mother country (loosely speaking) AMERICA
Positive kind of zero? On the contrary! ABSOLUTE
Run downhill PISTE
Some American depositors backed this inventor OTIS
Spotted in play, its effect is disastrous DOMINO
Subject is: 'The Discontented Mule' THEME
The batsman's occupation INNINGS
The line of those in the playground CHILDREN
They charge others, even pets PLAINTIFFS
They curl and lift cubes TONGS
They keep the hose straight SUSPENDERS
Where a houseman rules? KINGDOM
Wood is damaged by one EBONY