The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,302 - Nov 17 2004

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'The skull bone' - a class topic I put out OCCIPITAL
A description of tennis to which I attach mainly commonsense REALISTIC
A fuel grid used as a protector LIFEGUARD
A right pair - useless and exhausting ARDUOUS
Artist in East London, producer of a colourful display RAINBOW
Calamitous reverses with no time for a smoke CIGAR
Disease? Iron is included in tonic for treatment INFECTION
Drank heavily back in the station DEPOT
Engineers get round to make the waste usable RECYCLE
European Union's typical split over trees EUCALYPTI
Expression of admiration of hard and fast moves HATSOFF
Field fire breaks out above the usual foliage LEAFIER
First report on tree snake RACER
Lively place for fast food CHIPPER
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Losing height, perhaps? Hardly! LONGISH
Mixed, as in molecules MISCELLANEOUS
Politician in first-class cover-up ALIBI
Ring followed by long think OPINE
Sad song, for instance, to unburden heavenwards DIRGE
Separate and get a French drink in return UNPIN
Silicon confused with aluminium with the same slope ISOCLINAL
The fault's in the office not the Church CLERICALERROR
Trolley service? MEALSONWHEELS
Unexpected gripe about live changes producing special benefit PRIVILEGE
Well up in singing - that's me SOPRANO
What the publican calls late on many occasions TIMEAFTERTIME
Where one can't see the wood, they say! ARBORETUM
Woodwork for a trunk? COPSE