The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 22,715 - Dec 31 2002

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Clues Answers
1s putting a smile on a fish GRINLING
A barrier against Tyneside must be unbreakable ADAMANTINE
A girl to confess being inside it STELLA
Address to Manx cat by 8 across 1s, maybe OPUS
All turn - that's demanded out of spite ILLNATURE
Beasts and bird in battle MONGOOSES
Before there's an upheaval, get a better job PREFERMENT
Bigwig with big backing from primate GIBBON
Change from cad with clot and from 19 1s' 12 COLDCOMFORTFARM
Drink in Germany - please get the right answer BITTERLEMON
Grey cover containing 6 LIVID
Heal portico that's collapsed: is this correctly pronounced? ORTHOEPICAL
Heath makes himself known about scheme that wasn't there at first IMPLANTED
I won't allow you to flag BANNER
Clues Answers
Ignis fatuus for back-packers? TRAVELLINGLIGHT
Literary hero's drunk SHANDY
Matched and dispatched? MATED
Nobel prizewinner could be lost in a tabloid SULSTON
Pasta with Benedictine in the realm of folly NOODLEDOM
POW camp with prisoners' regulator? OFLAG
Precious little 12 for others OPAL
The country round follows alternative 1s ORLANDO
The fisherman's whim MAGGOT
Two churches on song: a worm will follow CERCARIA
Two generations could be free MASON
Waged war determinedly to show 1 EDWARD
Winter sports association for 51 bucks, maybe SKICLUB
Young creature for hire, always to be taken in LEVERET