The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 22,717 - Jan 2 2003

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Clues Answers
A large drink sounds deep DOUBLEBASS
A refusal with little force can be soothing ANODYNE
A stone overweight? BOULDER
Bear losing head in wreckage RUIN
Cleave stick ADHERE
Cops nearly failed through not keeping awake NARCOLEPSY
Danger point when it explodes GRENADE
Determine a right to piecework? ARBITRATE
Dim idiot, about 49 TWILIT
Direct speech ADDRESS
Doctor gives patients exercise DRILL
Donor with top credit rating? BESTOWER
Finished with church, we hear - will he ever learn? DUNCE
Foul row RANK
He trod the boards formerly in Lancashire OLDHAM
Clues Answers
He was known for an old windbag AEOLUS
Hitler's first cat cavorting with mouse under his very nose MOUSTACHE
Mask (hay fever?) YASHMAK
Presidential intelligence at work? BUSHTELEGRAPH
Relish something painful GOUT
Retired doctor introducing new deal to asylum BEDLAM
Six-footer takes test in three parts HEXAMETER
Term for a model poet TRIMESTER
They troubled Macmillan and Steven EVENTS
Time has a round face OCLOCK
Times review of an old theologian ERASMUS
Tom has to order a little bull for sacrifice HECATOMB
William Booth took part in 17 IAMB
Yarn to baffle a lawyer NOTARY