The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,787 - Jun 8 2006

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Clues Answers
Brood in straw etc beginning to fly off HATCH
Conscious of emotion when maiden's jilted SENTIENT
Days of celebrating in wide street at end of month OCTAVE
Detective and policeman struggling with brat ALBERTCAMPION
Employee testing seafood quality possibly not an Oxford type WINKLEPICKER
Get cross sewing, issuing simple expression of annoyance PLAINDARN
Go spare -- paid badly DISAPPEAR
High-protein food -- what office worker needed first TEMPEH
In a painful way, only changing sides about half way through SORELY
Journalist has bottom pinched by would-be lover SUBEDITOR
Let's now leave issue that's upsetting country TIMETOGO
Loveless god wanting everybody to be a slave THRALL
Most illustrious footballer of yesteryear -- outside right BRIGHTEST
Name of man participating in the thanksgiving? ETHAN
Clues Answers
Overcome by aggressive action -- thus king and queen may be invisible FACEDOWN
Place where lawyers are heard to define a wrong in other than black-and-white terms? GRAYSINN
Rhetorical device in formal statement not right on reflection TROPE
Schemer has design said to come to nothing FIGARO
See 14 THROAT
Set meals TVDINNERS
Situationally the uvula must be very deceptive LIEINONES
State what this, in short, might be? Shan't! NEWHAMPSHIRE
Toe of slipper -- one little dog gets shred RIPUP
Troubles in old area of land -- countryside's not flat here HILLSIDE
Volume in Christmas wrapping could be a bestseller NOVEL
What they did to choose Matthias -- a saint among idiots? CASTLOTS
With a muscular problem an athlete has little power CRAMP
Workers ultimately cry and chairman, MD et al get everything that's going SWEEPTHEBOARD