The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 22,950 - Oct 1 2003

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Clues Answers
Bar in to the right is less crowded THINNER
Channels for sporting events RACES
Cleaner faces ruin, hooked on dope and heroin DISHCLOTH
Cloth that sounds swell SERGE
Copper takes racketeers' pictures CUTOUTS
Dandy outfit buck's put on CLOTHESHORSE
Disturbed by short section in the OT OVERSET
Egghead's associate makes decisive moves on board SCHOLARSMATE
Expel from a party in true fashion READOUT
Food manufacture PRODUCE
Ham sandwich consumed with a drink standing AMATEUR
Intrusive moves made by voguish explorer, say INROADS
Leading 19 down - talk of the town CHATHAM
Leading seaman's sketch of sole PLANTAR
Clues Answers
Left to love and lust outrageously in this bed of roses LOTUSLAND
Left-wing alliance meeting in promenade POPULARFRONT
Material witness provided by Granny Sharp NANKEEN
Not for touching AGAINST
Platform prepared for the beak ROSTRUM
Priest touring see with crook CURVE
Rum sort of yell SCREECH
Seed with thick centre about to burst open DEHISCE
Shrink on seeing circus performer TRICKCYCLIST
Soldiers given order thus to retreat COMMANDOS
Tree many be deal? Right? ALDER
Warlike skill shown when wearing coat of mail, perhaps MARTIAL
When in island makes tour of betting places CASINOS
With belly in unusually bad order, lain over ABDOMINAL