The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,768 - May 17 2006

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'Yarn of Two Cities', taking only half second NYLON
Accomplished rules with the people above to improve behaviour MENDONESWAYS
Books one back in football team briefly showing spirit MANITOU
City producing order that's a bit of a laugh? OMAHA
Complaint on farm that is behind a bit SCRAPIE
Distributed old pennies round the 'orrible place DOLED
Examination round broadcast picked up in halls AUDITORIA
Fancy art we featured in seascape WATER
Heart of reader absorbs second plot in 'A Walk By The Sea' ESPLANADE
How to continue play when in touch LINEOUT
LA goes for song in the charts and adjusts the situation ATTUNES
Material turnover for a shopping area LLAMA
May's tax pundit will p-panic if confused. (Nothing's certain until it's over) MANYASLIPTWIXT
No joke where French knocks out English in set SERIOUS
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See 1 Across CUPANDLIP
Sheet anchor? PAPERCLIP
Slick rep's unusual name PREEN
Soil piled after shifting the earth, for example ELLIPSOID
Suffer pain? Cure partly INCUR
Switch involves mechanical routine for source of vitamin A CAROTENE
Ten pies consumed? He needed to work off a stone! EPSTEIN
The flight of a cockney costermonger? APPLESANDPEARS
The French miss the wine, including one produced first MADEMOISELLE
The republic's statute mostly up for scrutiny PERUSAL
Tick off when rule etc is broken LECTURE
Use English phone box - I don't like foreign ones XENOPHOBE
Waste of time if there's no date to treaty ALLIANCE
Window put up in terrible ironworks ORIEL