The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,947 - Dec 12 2006

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A town deprived of its head is likely to collapse UNSTABLE
A world ruler is its rocker CRADLE
About romance and tying the knot - no hitch? CLOVE
Agreement with shrink CONTRACT
Angry about student sensuality? Clarify! ILLUSTRATE
Arab leader said to cause agitation SHEIKH
Cost of flight to Laos, say FARE
Dial tones answer call to account FACETHEMUSIC
E.C. Turner set up to be resolving into first principles ANALYTIC
Gourmet store with American composer DELIUS
Heartless meaning could be a riddle ENIGMA
Help me claw off what's clinging and won't let me go WHEELCLAMP
Here president saw nothing amiss WASHINGTON
Hot forged pound notes STOLEN
Initial typeset without reversion STET
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Ladder with one component short RUN
Last choice's not English, perhaps, for a pedant SCHOLASTIC
Legal process when the case collapses ESCHEAT
Lying with bend in backbone SUPINE
Number turn up with Putin COMPUTE
Playwright - there's many worse MILLER
Report omits nothing: after church, 9 take poison STRYCHNINE
Series of notes by pianist creates a measure of upheaval RICHTERSCALE
Service makes cars go MINISTRY
She voices a chronic complaint MONA
Singular royal pronoun ONE
Theatrical party CAMP
Thus eyed, one is blissfully innocent STARRY
Weird and ever poetic, that is EERIE
While company follows step by step, they proceed on course ASCOTRACES