The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 22,579 - Jul 23 2002

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Clues Answers
A legal bet placed on a mere trifle BAGATELLE
A little mollusc: it crawls backwards when very cold ARCTIC
A soldier overhauled latrines in cold blockhouses IGLOOS
A violin more can play CREMONA
Avenging spirits in Greece or Ireland? Certainly! ERINYES
Blew notes? Groovy! FLUTED
Bore passed by a majority CARRIED
Characters first seen in Kyushu and neighbouring Japanese islands KANJI
Charles and Heather are obviously amused CHUCKLING
Cleaners don't have gents to check DETER
Clothes were first mangled GARBLED
Compulsion gets half of us stuck in curry DURESS
Confounded sailing! ATSEA
Deposit in earth yielding nitre INTER
Dexter's prerogative? RIGHT
Hope and Crosby rising and falling BOBBING
Clues Answers
How to get across, like the USA pre-1917 and 1941? LATERALLY
I may ring a wrong sort of number IMAGINARY
Just how Lady Godiva rode BARELY
Language of the East used in sacred book KOREAN
Leaders from Rome attended debate in Ischia; more than one spoke RADII
Lot of Tyneside not completely developed DESTINY
March associated with detective stories set in Goa NGAIO
Material, we hear, had influence SWAYED
Off colour near this joint KNUCKLE
Pair watches partners being unfaithful TWOTIMERS
Picture oddly smeary in viewfinder CANVASSER
Ruined tower near mountain ash ROWANTREE
Small, pert child holding small rock SCHIST
They recruit young man for a women's magazine THELADY
Tripoli's last doctor is to join Tripoli's last king IDRIS
Well dressed for the meet INTHEPINK