The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 22,540 - Jun 7 2002

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Art movement is mad about assent in Russia DADAISM
Artist right about bird COROT
Average set turning out to be least generous MEANEST
Clergyman is to run about town in Italy TREVISO
Drunken sot in chaste pose POSTURE
Gorse destroyed by monsters OGRES
Haste leading to downfall PRECIPITATION
If you want it, ask a policeman if he has it THETIME
Is on a par with study about fancy dress CAPARISON
Memorial to a dog CAIRN
Never still on world body's day off UNRESTING
Nothing green is apparent OVERT
Officially approve their bedrolls for show BLESSTHEBRIDE
Part of plant I lent doctor by mistake TENDRIL
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Permission to resign LEAVE
Real ink may be thinner LANKIER
Recent pie cooked over middle point EPICENTRE
Restrained eastern journalists about colour REPRESSED
Self-restrained mood at tea break TEMPERATE
Settlement in lodgings ACCOMMODATION
Shout for food CHEER
Speak logically, though seen to be upset after discussions TALKSENSE
The point of a story or lesson MORAL
Tied it in a knot and began INITIATED
Took a piece, or part, of animal OKAPI
Two soldiers, for example, rising against detection equipment GEIGERCOUNTER
US miler collapses in chaos MISRULE
Worlds depicted in one piece of poetry about sunburst UNIVERSES