The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,463 - May 25 2005

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Clues Answers
A thousand never 26 - they trying to be clever? KNOWALLS
Aaron Copland's first composition involves one instrument OCARINA
Advertising vehicle? TRAILER
All fingers and thumbs in Paris - that is, the South DIXIE
Arrive earlier, like blood entering head PREDATE
Blood bath, though horse protected? CARNAGE
Bond hit the booze RAPPORT
Entertainer that's appreciated pranced around TAPDANCER
Floor scheme crushed - not entirely flat surface GROUNDPLAN
Gorilla seen with a crook? PRIMATE
Hangover resulting from heavy drinking BEERGUT
How long might she be expecting, say, having turned up at Victoria? GESTATION
Imminent knocking back of hard liquor NIGH
Most inadequate, large ball bearing? LOWEST
Never licked 23? ROCKYMARCIANO
Clues Answers
One paying bill for immigrant? SETTLER
Outlaw having to cheat in anything but poetry PROSCRIBE
Painful to grasp a hundred and twenty SCORE
Perhaps beat up and down, up and down MINIM
Playing the jester is Jack's first and only card JOKING
Promiscuous monk, you say? Don't trust him LOOSE
Reportedly giant contract TIGHTEN
Salt provides great modern art ACETATE
See 17 CANNON
Someone beautiful in face, in parts DIVISIONAL
Sting, for example, animal, then girl, then me STAGENAME
Tone down fit of rage TEMPER
Top 29 cross APEX
Tubes carrying a river through French city to Italy MACARONI