The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,965 - Jan 4 2007

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Clues Answers
Abandoned insects move in to many states LICENTIOUS
Ammunition store OK, perhaps MAGAZINE
As participant in Mastermind, I'm withdrawing - as I should! DIMWIT
Cosmic swirl unable to spin NEBULA
Devilish crime? Resolve to admit one DEICIDE
Emotional Oscar winner's requirement in churning out briefest of acceptance speeches? THANKYOU
Figure quits in home of Napoleon? SEVENTY
How regularly might the Queen describe one alone in childhood? ORPHAN
I fish beneath river, giving delicate clobber! CAMISOLE
In turning over set, US legal drama's showing celebrity chef NIGELLA
Incredibly wise to hide central part of manifesto where newspapers are seeking Liberal Party agenda? WIFE
Noblewoman from French game of strategy DUCHESS
Ridicules a politician with nothing on amid libidinous extremes LAMPOONS
Rugby player on the game? HOOKER
Clues Answers
Sanctimonious claim of crusader even less likely to hold water? HOLIERTHAN
See 10 SWAPPING
See 12 TRAINING
See 17 LAWSON
See 23 THOU
See 24 FACE
Something afoot beginning to horrify, within more unpleasant, beastly tower WHEELHORSE
Sort features which publisher chooses TYPE
Speak of God's time of rest as sweet SUNDAE
This practice, one obstacle to stop baby wetting things! TOILET
Those taken on a quiet river current over another river APPOINTEES
Vegetable I stick up underneath German chancellor KOHLRABI
What comes about by a dark time's ending? DAYBREAK
With which to open source of oil SESAME