The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,417 - Apr 1 2005

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Clues Answers
Back last runner, which failed to start ENDORSE
Beams said to be uplifting RAYS
Boxer goes round with footballers GOALIES
Censure players over performance REPROVE
Cut the cake and have a dance RUMBA
Designer of hog register? STYLIST
Disparage exercise to discover the secret DECRYPT
Enigmatic champion of Countryside Alliance? NIMROD
Explanatory text about feet LEGENDS
Fashion from Dior's a help with a round figure SPHEROIDAL
Foreign cops seem grand, if disorganised GENDARMES
Furies in Ireland? Indeed! ERINYES
Grammarian who makes a bundle TRUSS
Is Harpo Marx starting to make a witty sally APHORISM
Loner reforms to join up ENROL
Clues Answers
Lubricant for performers GREASE
Noisy entertainment sure ruins conversation DISCOURSE
Old tribe reflected fashion EDOM
Passing fancy isn't art TRANSIT
Purest article devised by a scientist PASTEUR
Quiet-spoken, like some windows SHUTTERED
Reason traditionally lost at Oxford CAUSE
Reformed Chapel anthems used to promote the virtues of water CHELTENHAMSPA
Short action that may be open and shut? BRIEFCASE
Sky pilot displaying a bit of religious mania AIRMAN
Sloth of one rejecting help ACEDIA
Time to dress? That's rubbish! GARBAGE
Unusual rainfall in North Wales LLANFAIR
With nothing sure, grasp fails - but it wasn't worth the effort SOURGRAPES