The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,097 - Mar 23 2004

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Collective ventures which Corbett had a hand in, those rarely done, we hear? SWEEPSTAKES
Departures from here, where arrivals expect to be late if leader changes HEATHROW
Drug given to farmyard animals merits witty remark EPIGRAM
Exaggerate when scorer lacks finish in goalless draw OVERDO
Guide's statement reversed about one's king and prime minister DISRAELI
House plant turning blue first DWELLING
Imaginary god detailed in plan MADEUP
Job for metal worker, fascinating RIVETING
Local clergyman turns up in brown TAVERN
Mention 'A Taste of Bangkok' (Mansfield) to confuse TIEINKNOTS
Mineral lacks torrent? ROCKSALT
Music player giving flower to bird DEEJAY
Musical piece for clarinet was finished by having one bar too many? OLIVER
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On which rep stood to be abused, or posted letters? DOORSTEP
One's shaken given leak from ANC's 9? TAMBOURINE
Representative of ruler receiving backing of fool by day's end EMISSARY
Rude boy nearly sent back for tantrum OBSCENE
See 9 REED
Sickening traveller Moore in 'Odyssey', perhaps EPIDEMIC
Some 1,000,000 I sense providing anxiety NEUROSIS
Sort of escape from sack FIRE
Sound opening pace GAIT
Time for someone stabbed in the back to accept end of tenure! IDES
Unseat figure after the road swiftly bends DETHRONE
Upset at pain from running: this isn't running CROSSSTITCH
What cows do, causing altercation amid what they had BROWSE