The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 22,706 - Dec 18 2002

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*Detail relative to keep inside AUTUMN
*Fruit for dog, say MELANCHOLY
*Gunner (Royal Artillery) deployed around Channel Islands GRECIANURN
*It was spent by King Lear NIGHTINGALE
*Subject of analysis PSYCHE
Affair where one is embraced by a celebrity LIAISON
Alexander's place for fellow on the staff MACEDON
An agreement taking English as part of Current Affairs? ANODE
Bearer of sword and its handle is about to live quietly HIPBELT
Born student embraced by monarch is doing homage KNEELING
Boxin' 'owdydo has a pantomime character PUNCHINELLO
Catty remark about a party in a field MEADOW
Check the flow: it must be reliable STAUNCH
Elizabethan writer from first to last beyond the pale? NASHE
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Feeble devil chasing his tail LIMP
Hole for gold provided diamonds ORIFICE
How many peers should be? Solve clue 10, taking notes UNELECTED
Is common sense un-American? NOUS
Ken (not the present one) appears odd during change of name with accolade OLDACQUAINTANCE
Laureate for ever? It can't be done PERPETUALMOTION
Lizard makes Portuguese explorer lose his head AGAMA
No use having a home for peacocks? INVAIN
Read up about crazy individual that's unsettled NOMADIC
Sorry to get 24 hours off? LACKADAY
The case of the canonised queen coming after the break HOLSTER
The first two hundred painters are capital ACCRA
Unsettled air plus rebellion UPRISAL
Workers left out of joke PEASANTRY