The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,876 - Sep 20 2006

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Clues Answers
's missing from audible check on oil painting DIPTYCH
... which makes commercials PUFFPUFF
2 28s then find part of Tahiti with unlikely weather ITISNOW
Back number is in time to suffer AGONISE
Do well without turning nice and skilful PROFICIENT
Empress who danced briefly until confined by parents MATILDA
Exciting event at one's finger-tips? NAILBITER
Fast mover's lung? (I'm not serious) LIGHT
Guide on the ranch? STEER
I put ink to paper - hence remove copy in the commercial PRINTHEAD
Instrument protector nearly keeping it GUITAR
Leave posh beat in a stew GOULASH
Lets us out of contention TUSSLE
Limit prisoner's following ... CONSTRAIN
Little girl pursues wrongdoing till further notice SINEDIE
Clues Answers
Look at beat - it helps to keep time WATCHSTRAP
Map chap - that's resonant PLAN
Quite besotted with an amorous student? ALLOVER
Rodin's work is unconvincing to royals THINKER
See 10 GENT
See 12 DEADBODY
See 15 HELPIT
Shroud for setter is 15 24 OVERMY
Statement of resistance giving advance warning - three quarters reach nearly the infernal abyss NOTIFICAN
Stone's first entry AGATE
The man who wants his d____? INNER
Waste silk product of science to take place unfinished SCHAPPE
Won't clue Telford, say? NEWTOWN
Writer of passages about wild bull FORDMADOXFORD