The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,924 - Nov 15 2006

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Clues Answers
Attend to small boy, first to go in LISTEN
Bit of a beast, bit of a beast CURB
Check drops for the ear REIN
Chorus for Christmas present at length where you can't get water? NOWELLNOWELL
Courage may end with pain NERVE
Dance gives priest company FLAMENCO
Girl with tree that may be hocked HOLLY
Horse of a certain colour died first in its fair town DAPPLEBAY
Hour passed when people talk THETIMEOFDAY
It's understood if pet's returned first TACIT
Kind of thinking lacking a thread for dreams coming true WISHFULFILMENT
Last year's leaders pledged John Humphrey LYTTELTON
Letters intended for reproduction as old fashioned protection CHAINMAIL
Name Shakespeare hero's lost love capturing Tom and queen in place of Hotspur NORTHUMBERLAND
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Nice day, wrote Scottish Spooner, for song DANNYBOY
Non-U carriage - the right setter's - for agricultural workers LANDARMY
Relics raised in part with money ROSENOBLE
Restrict amount of sodium amid uncertainties in Biblical town CAPERNAUM
Reversal of persecutor in reputation may be Christian FORENAME
Scots girl from Zimbabwe SHONA
Some brief fragments hidden in London EFFRA
The top line is a list of people getting some money back NUMERATOR
The way people talk of miracle food MANNA
Time to go? MARCH
Twist away with others WREST
What about ... about ... about some flowers? WREATH
With acid about, distance the Guardian from country and western FOLKMUSIC
Wrong end is blue and turned to spray NEBULISED