The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,111 - Apr 8 2004

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Clues Answers
An inverted fish swallowed live before the war ANTEBELLUM
Biblical dupe keeping bridge players up with sense of foreboding UNEASE
Compelling melon to be produced in court COGENT
Deity enters tonsured cow SHORTHORN
Flaw in drunk's report of rapture about printer's measure BLEMISH
Grope and pull around, coming back very happy GLEEFUL
Joke with Muse, taking note of impeccable behaviour PUNCTILIO
Man or monkey, say, mostly holding a doctor's instrument BAGPIPE
Minor excursion finds worthy soul on winning streak STROLL
Music playing, initially, con brio in pub PIBROCH
Nice mess getting press coverage as peace initiative IRENICON
Oaf formerly adopting an Owenesque poetic device ASSONANCE
One judging when flowers come up around the 5th of August? ASSESSOR
Played both sets with maximum effort BESTSHOT
Clues Answers
Put out by something that gets up your nose? SNUFF
Relative going to northern Switzerland to relax UNCLENCH
Resort receiving account of gambler's haunt RACECOURSE
Retired churl wept buckets BLUBBERED
Shrine left in beauteous valley TEMPLE
Silence in music, or in Hamlet's last words? REST
Smear the President's hat TARBUSH
Sports venue where Dumas gets it wrong STADIUM
Stimulant - speed - given to terrorists on road enveloped by gas METHAMPHETAMINE
The one foreign soldier with a turban LUNGI
Tipsy ambassador's anything but stiff LITHE
Trial held during Mao Tse Tung's revolution TEST
US city where there's no more curry? BALTI
Writer's loose garter is seized by angry mob MARGARETDRABBLE