The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 24,378 - May 2 2008

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A rebel, once head of mystical eastern community of scholars ACADEME
Closures of once prosperous mines provoked one to take revenge NEMESIS
Cocaine, crack and lithium finally ruin movie star CHARLIECHAPLIN
Diamonds shimmer in this performance ICEDANCE
EU can reverse support for reserve and net capital worth BOOKVALUE
Excavated old remains constructed of stone MASONRIED
Exercised authority, power, plus inordinate desire, and then died PRESIDED
Herb is added to meat stews? FLESHPOTS
I'm optimistic about this African city MOPTI
Iodine found in assorted unstable heavenly bodies ASTEROIDS
It's controversial, but a valuable secret HIDDENTREASURE
Kafka character's short existential statement about to give us the vapours MIASMAS
Legal institutions risk causing alarmist panic COURTSMARTIAL
Moving gradually to lose a third of the old colliery EASING
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Old fogey read the same thing again and again DODO
Old Indian joining riots is secretly collaborating INCAHOOTS
Part-time copper is in pain, having been slashed and cut SCISSOR
Poe's ghost creeps shapelessly round the centre of Seattle SPECTER
Problem bedeviling undercover war reporter EMBED
Reduced the rent and prospered THRIVEN
Revolutionary cardinal imprisoned at Queen's address, perhaps for leftwing ideology MARXISM
Sauce with fish making you fat? LIPID
Spoilt, flash and wrongheaded OFFBEAM
Student, confused about the organisation of women, gets straightened out UNTWISTED
Swan and rook overcome a reptile COBRA
Talented Lib Dem, no longer the leader ABLE
The key, perhaps, is to gain ground ISLAND
Truman, initially experiencing choler, exploded a bomb of this kind THERMONUCLEAR