The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,501 - Jul 8 2005

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Apropos at leaving Cobbett's London with girl GWEN
Bar progress along this way east? SILKROAD
Church about to capture portent with insecticide CHROMENE
Confess! The evil head event involved 21's performance THEDANCE
Crater here buried in decadence ADEN
Dickensian whose vine became wine WELLER
Forget-me-not for use in amore perhaps MOUSEEAR
Get out of Germany in ways of 21's creator STRAUSS
Jordan's precursor went topless after 8 9 11 JOHN
Kentish king only too ready to dish it out here SERVERY
Lamb-like orientals utter his rubbish ESSAYISH
Like Bognor's attempt to enter the lists here REGISTRY
Lock many into the Seigneur's domain; it should have a pronounced effect STRESSMARK
Maladroit and hardly even-handed FLATFOOTED
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Name entered against one good German author VONNEGUT
Native Americans looking good in trousers CHINOOKS
Non-discriminatory higher education congress UNISEX
Nothing injected in joint of African beef ANKOLE
Road mending with primitive zeal ARDOUR
See 1 SEVENVEILS
See 10 THEBAPTIST
See 19 SALOME
See 19 GIRL
See 8 OFTHE
Squaddies' song of gal the army MOs list 'dubious' THATSMY
Type of Greek fire picked up in supermarkets? MUSAK
Well woman? That's novel! REBECCA
Wildly met relations outside with explosive outcome SEMTEX