The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 24,432 - Jul 4 2008

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Clues Answers
About a boy's premise REASON
Backbones yielding steaks with 31 SPINES
Beat depression through sense of taste PALPITATE
Bird with 31 breaking up record PETREL
Bring up about 100 to pile REACTOR
Cautious with a shot that's crooked WRY
Deride covering fit lady''s butt with ornaments JEWELLERE
Ends with interim arrangement TERMINI
First thing that sparks interest PRINCIPAL
For example, Modesty Blaise's drugs? HEROINE
Generating defensive substances can ignite revolutionary ANTIGENIC
Good man's 31 could be high STREET
Hold back when somewhat calumniated, backhandedly DETAIN
I capture loaded wagons overturned as part of plan STRATEGIC
Last year's pen STY
Locks protecting silver handle MANAGE
Clues Answers
Love gets 25's heart turning to clay KAOLIN
Maggie's attacks lack gravity in getting item for washroom HANDBASIN
Metalworker to wash with 31? WELDER
Misdirect one's effort to get cork high in plane? BARKUPTHE
Mountain lion, say, that's last to go after a woolly beast ALPACA
One Cheops constructed for refuge HOSPICE
Record's hundred and one? SINGLETON
Rick runs through country SPRAIN
Science that compounds minor charges in city INORGANIC
Second in relative quantity AMOUNT
See 1 WRONGTREE
See 8 CHEMISTRY
Solver's said to be 25 at heart YEW
Start off from seer's approval YES
Totally one-sided chapter in midday examination NOCONTEST
Wear is a result of puncture in America but not Florida ATTIRE