The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,950 - Dec 15 2006

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Accomplished poet loses heart DONE
Antithesis of flare as source of light TAPER
Being in love makes Auden more whimsical ENAMOURED
Ceremony -- one that is taken up in an ancient city POMPEII
Collar for French count SEIZE
Colour therapy finally used in prison CYAN
Communist country's leading dance TURKEYTROT
Device that draws Cassius, for example PLOTTER
Fanatical military operation to capture bridgehead RABID
Further chances to view theatrical fare? REPEATS
Gulls going over resorts SPAS
Hotelier providing formal documents for auditor RITZ
Insulating material like cream on ospreys' wings ASBESTOS
Miserable material for a movie BLUEVELVET
Muck, say, disclosed retrospectively in Hamlet's place? Not half! ISLE
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Not much time for another helping SECONDS
Oddball lay overhead and slew LEEHARVEYOSWALD
Old drunkard without principles given a coat CREOSOTED
OT -- even I must be ready to start again! BACKTOSQUAREONE
Pansy to suit a bed of roses? HEARTSEASE
Players crossing line move stealthily SIDLE
Preacher, getting hot, who writes: 'Gee! Oh!' GOSPELLER
Question about going after hat TOPIC
Rider earns quiet break EQUESTRIAN
Silly farce sure to appear again RESURFACE
Software developer with pen to fill in oversize pages GATEFOLDS
Sounding sporty like Serena and Venus Williams? TENNESSEE
Starving members of sect given food outside FAMISHED
There's nothing in cutting to reveal a card TAROT
Too content for Royal Society ALSO