The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,692 - Feb 17 2006

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A 4 - pray the treatment may effect a cure AVERSIONTHERAPY
A cat is of very little matter ATOM
Acted as go-between, taking time and thought MEDITATED
As a lodger, there's less than sufficient in it for classification as a native INDIGENOUS
Beads for starlets? ASTRAGALS
Do this to an outcast REPEL
Drinks for the young? TOTS
Eric gets doctor in real trouble AMBLER
Get out, caught off a no-ball, perhaps EXTRACT
Homes & Gardens, perhaps, allows one to escape from life as it is REALTY
Initial plan drifts aimlessly on drifter FIRSTDRAFT
Inside is where bird begins EGGSHELL
It's preferable when dry to get in a drink BETTER
Leading Republicans' euphemism naively downplaying illegal torture in other nations RENDITION
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Letter from the reserve THETA
Live at home after a short break as an artist HOLBEIN
Man with a line at 90°, first to last ANGLER
Oil company turns over alternative for plant POTHERB
Oriental sailor, a rogue changing sides LASCAR
People not having the right to quarters with the street as their resort SQUATTERS
Poles without very foreign accent STRESS
Primate's alternative nomenclature MOUNTAINASH
Proprietor or new management OWNER
Record comment of satisfied guest? BESTTIMEYET
She needs length and space ELLEN
Singular Anglo-Saxon orientation ATTITUDE
US president died in house abroad MADISON
Waves, being very often unseen ULTRAVIOLETRAYS