The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,413 - Mar 28 2005

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Clues Answers
'People person' making home for outcasts LEPERS
... he's on alcohol and on cannabis, spinning TOPER
... in the act and one fellow's locked up ... ONSTAGE
... plea expressing doubts 5 down that underlie act's rewriting DECLINATURE
Bringing to 4 rough gem in notorious cases ARRAIGNMENT
Check for bleeding pen letters to old Athenian STYPSIS
Disproportionate moralism: one's fitted up in perjury, beginning and end of it PRIGGERY
Eg 24 19 9 12 25 5 down? The Bill on the way to London ACOVERUP
Eg Peter's opening from the back: nothing inside - that smells bad! ASAFOETIDA
Eminent firm's four characters, time inside, deserved diamonds, they rule HIGH
I take in fast crime on 21 6? PIRACY
In the constitution of copper, perhaps, he determines when to show hesitation ASSAYER
Mischievous couple of fellows? One's caught ... MALEFIC
More than one knife victim's ultimate pain at set-up? MACHETES
Nearly fall over before beginning to light joint MUTUAL
Clues Answers
Not the colour of 10 eyes it's necessary to cover the ... VERT
One usual suspect, judge admitted, is not suspicious UNJEALOUS
Paid the bail for a sound woman FREDA
Perish from condition - it is the skin going red, black etc, so I've heard SEAS
Prearrange fire on road, slippery FOREORDAIN
Reasons for their being behind bars? CONS
See 20 THECOURSE
See 21 OFJUSTICE
See 21 COURT
She's serving up roast and she is criminal! AIRHOSTESS
Stick used to support a body of officers STAFF
They may look like the real thing, not northern; or Esther Rantzen's misplaced ERSATZES
Treacherous professor quickly set out the expected scenario PARFOR
Underwear masking characters in theft, we more generally believe PANTHEISTS
Very Big Apple written up in parish priest's objects of admiration CYNOSURES