The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,344 - Jan 6 2005

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... cut gums using these CHOPSTICKS
... from Artemesia got Arran irritated TARRAGON
A boat can hold it thus, perhaps INCENSE
A builder in the yard SHIPWRIGHT
A course for beginners? STARTER
A perfume rising ... ASCENT
Boats run in a smart fashion TRIMARANS
Can Anglicans produce these coins? PENCE
Chicken causing a crowd disturbance COWARD
Different names for church property MANSE
Disease, which could bring about a change of colour DISTEMPER
Dish to stir round RISOTTO
Dull short book NUMB
Excessive joy at end of rave ECSTASY
Imagine place without a cinema PICTUREPALACE
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Nutrient could be a lemon squash BONEMEAL
Old author ready for business OPEN
One saw future benefit in proclamation PROPHET
Prisoner in China ... INMATE
River heading southeast? Not true FALSE
Room on liner for adventurous traveller SPACESHIP
Some tinted spectacles have acrylic rims, only they must be red CRIMSON
Spell differently the contents of 2 SPASM
Stalemate comes when I'm past my best IMPASSE
The focal point of recent reform CENTRE
This sum formed a link with Corinth ISTHMUS
Trains for the troops at the zoo SCHOOLS
Unfinished portrait upset John Lennon, for one AIRPORT
What the chairman does on the bed! HEADBOARD