The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 22,627 - Sep 17 2002

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Clues Answers
Actor turned away as the elephant man MAHOUT
Churchill managed to move slowly round hospital RANDOLPH
Conquest finished by Advent OVERCOMING
Direction in boat that may bear fruit? PUNNET
Drug baron finally getting lorry outside Columbia NARCOTIC
Ex-minister entertaining upper-class people with money to spend BUYERS
Excessive guy getting in outsize furniture OTTOMANS
Father always joined in a brawl FRAY
Final letter about deer set at nought ZEROED
Fishing boat goes to fish? Exactly! SMACKDAB
He'd put on raincoat with fashionable lining, not handmade MACHINED
Hearing aid? Old haulier's transported LOUDHAILER
Jack was sick in jug JAILED
King giving order? Right on! OBERON
Clues Answers
Naked celebrities entertaining king and queen STARKERS
Notice saying 'Playground Equipment' SEESAW
Old school quadrangle SQUARE
Perfume for the hair might appear strange on horse BAYRUM
Personality disorder not initially terribly serious NEUROSIS
Poet translating myth or saga THOMASGRAY
Puzzling child, as favourite may be ODDSON
Queen's radio broadcast, for example, presented by the Foreign Office in Paris QUAIDORSAY
Section of climbing trail up Alps in Italy APULIA
Shakespeare's mistress displays the same unknown quantities DOXY
Sweet jester FOOL
Volcanic rock around volcano - outside inside? ANDESITE
What beaters do with game that's put up FLOG
What slimmer wouldn't expect to appraise? SIZEUP