The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 24,282 - Jan 11 2008

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9 bears flowers BROOKS
9 since died FORD
9 square pitch STONE
A way of being an old teenager at end of line MODE
Awful time to plug Gordon Bennett, governor! DIRECTOR
Buck up, 9? REED
Butcher's former sexual partner left out ONCEOVER
Chimp loath to get hit about the eye OPHTHALMIC
Close-bound sickly tree logged ENTERED
Colourless American takes top off 9 RAY
Corporation grasping type whose victims will be cut up BODYSNATCHER
Cut down bust, 'Chesty'! SCYTHE
Disillusioned with Gordian intricacy and driving in the rough OFFROADING
Frustrated aims of one supplying hoods MAFIOSI
Guardian's reported 9 WEIR
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Intended needs to be outside right church for 9 MERCHANT
Kay's dumped by artist for 9 LEE
Looks like a seasick sailor's means of preventing scurvy? GREENS
Medieval lover has celebrated many a birthday with an amphetamine ISOLDE
No jolly wheeze like the endless conjoining with young woman I'd abandoned ASTHMA
No traveller at sea tangled with myth about love STAYATHOME
Out of touch with reality when reacting to a blow on the head? STARRYEYED
Put together said evil article on weak glue SYNTHESIZE
Really absorbed by a piece of information INFACT
Small house, end of terrace, without a certain something - move elsewhere RESITE
Sophistry refined and internalised by Bill Gates finally becomes science ASTROPHYSICS
Sutherland encircles Highway 9 JORDAN
Time to honour the old man of Hayes' draft constitution FATHERSDAY
Vase shattered with Cleo's improvised jazz singing VOCALESE
Woman takes duck on river to be a 9 IVORY