The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,752 - Apr 28 2006

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Care taken at gunpoint? FORESIGHT
Cut that ensured Macduff's survival CAESAREAN
Daggers found by dead priest OBELI
Deception involving animals broadcast in Australia RUSE
Element of Lucy's style? MANGANESE
First in classics ALPHA
Get new home service to wounded hero REHOUSE
Get together about tree, one having been removed CONFER
Gives up pressing need for reform from the start RESIGNS
Government's educational priority - and what it's doing? FAILINGSCHOOLS
Here's a load of old cobblers SHEERNONSENSE
Last Station of the Cross removed to centre, causing annoyance? CHAGRIN
Lateral blow - blow about 7 fatal date SIDESWIPE
Like the nobility, resolved to remove leaders ERMINED
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Majority of homework about hesitation in waltz, say PREPONDERANCE
Marine inhabitant has a month at work OCTOPUS
Never, never, never fall for such a euphemism! EASYTERMS
Performances before Romans ACTS
Physicist seen poetically across the street by a boy OERSTED
Ploughing one's furrow while still young enough? TILLAGE
Printout that's not easy to reproduce HARDCOPY
Prose composition benefits from their knowledge ROPES
Rat, as a legionnaire might say of his situation DESERTONESPOST
Rooms for the next generation, as Roy Jenkins might have said UTERI
Topping speech by ambassador HEADDRESS
Unedifying episodes in 6 SCENES
Warped reason to include time for a US politician SENATOR
What the vicar has been, perhaps, if promoted by the church BENEFICE