The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,923 - Nov 14 2006

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Clues Answers
Bird included in menu that chef put together NUTHATCH
Classic author of animated character, not altogether superior PLUTARCH
Coming nowhere? UNPLACED
Deprive of official status as one's turned tables in ruin DISESTABLISH
Did her arrival made Browning homesick? APRIL
Excessive number of deliveries to miller's boy OVERMUCH
Exploits with fish in the drink MILKSHAKE
Gift of finest old whiskey BESTOW
Had a meal - bought it about noon DINED
How to get some fruit juice for meeting with journalists PRESSCONFERENCE
Memorial recollecting the war WREATH
Mix socially in jobs newly started HOBNOB
Novelist said what kind of person he was SCOT
Pastimes I abandoned to become a philosopher HOBBES
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Person who's crazy, in a nutshell? HEADCASE
Poles and European Union not close together SPARSE
Priestess's object of worship HERO
Restrain worker leading strike HANDCUFF
Rub us the wrong way with prejudice, mostly in places like Harrow SUBURBIA
See a man struggling with a tentacled marine creature SEAANEMONE
Something from the past and what woman may not divulge about it HERITAGE
Tie up and whip LASH
Unable to see pen after drinking bout BLINDFOLD
Unpopular type's song with piano hard to follow PARIAH
What became of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard? It's a warning OMEN
Where top brass are taking sovereign's side, without mercy HEADQUARTERS
Young woman I caught is in court, no romantic CLASSICIST