The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,872 - Sep 15 2006

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Clues Answers
A friend writing SWALK is one of them ACRONYMS
A green southern fruit AVOCADOS
A place arranged for the bishop's residence PALACE
A South Dorset organisation for divers ASSORTED
Commemorative tablet to a dentist? PLAQUE
Courting regularly even in spring ORIGIN
Criteria for assessing magistrates? BENCHMARKS
Ducks with a soft centre? SWEETHEART
Eating in almost dingy surrounding DINING
English side won away from home EXILED
Exact description of a martinet STRICT
Finding Ecstasy in disco disturbance DECISION
Get stoned here in Belgium OSTEND
Gnarled, like a granny! KNOTTY
Clues Answers
Heaps of food on board STACKS
Heartless grown-ups form classes GROUPS
In which real duty is abandoned! ADULTERY
Indicator of foreign postings SIGNPOST
It's by the way ROADSIDE
Prepare the pitch GROUND
Radio set shaped like a star ASTEROID
Sheets used for making projections ACETATES
Storeman has talk about business with Banks, once SHOPKEEPER
There's a lot about this in Hollywood STUDIO
They show frightening ability in their field SCARECROWS
Timon was one in a Neath scrum ATHENIAN
Try first to become a writer ESSAYIST
Where bluegrass meets bourbon? KENTUCKY