The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 24,132 - Jul 18 2007

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Clues Answers
... town that produced steel before Wednesday SHEFFIELD
A bit of fun with players in bloomers LARKSPURS
Apostates making Greene sad RENEGADES
Boy making girl eat cheese GABRIEL
Cakes ordered in cafés FANCIES
Conclusive evidence to terminate the hearing SOUNDPROOF
Constant fun - getting tipsy and being sick UNFAILING
Contender for top American office job, amazingly constrained OBAMA
Criminal act of fool being dozy? KIDNAPPING
Doctor needing a doctor for practice DRILL
Fashionable place making contribution INPUT
Fast and loose she ain't INHASTE
Head of government in the end will reveal swindle FINAGLE
Hit a pest SLUG
House on reclaimed land abandoned by queen and king LEOPOLD
Iceberg possibly seen by Balt leads to utter chaos eventually LETTUCE
Clues Answers
In the German retreat, Mussolini needed to be cut down REDUCED
Irish house that is beginning to sell papers DAILIES
King beginning to lay waste OFFAL
Mineral associated with cold heart CORE
New wife for Irish saint BRIDE
Nuts in a restaurant? OUTTOLUNCH
Old vice president has not paid for underground movement BURROWING
One book accepted by Henri, translated by an Irishman HIBERNIAN
Place for notice SPOT
Plant's half-life - 50 years LILY
Press release about some predictions? CIDER
Red tape in new form - superficially new REPAINTED
Start eating, or I get into mess ORIGINATE
Sum of money provided for piano? GRAND
This period is for composition in a newspaper office EDITORSHIP
Yorkshire town with odd bits of steel in reserve ... SELBY