The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 24,455 - Jul 31 2008

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(Predator and) prey, pack member, snatching bit off CATBIRD
Bear meets crocodile in secret 22 HUGGERMUGGER
Bird gives sailors nothing to shout about BARNOWL
Bit of sauce in dish, 22 for danger area HOTSPOT
Box in trunk? CHEST
China dog with cutting edge on peak of Easter Island SHARPEI
Conditionally restore property tax on theatre REPLEVY
Cost of writers in flower EXPENSE
Driver's warning keeps away problem with cattle HOOFROT
Feeling for girl not right - incontinent AESTHESIA
Founding father's brother (ie uncle) REMUS
Frost report on nursery? RHYME
Fruit for cuckoo BANANAS
Householder's defence in 22 for post SNAILMAIL
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It may be silver but it can hurt BIRCH
Male bird maintaining right to be more handsome? GRANDER
My name, Alun, could be a girl's? UNMANLY
No reply as affecting ordinary guy LAYPERSON
Nominally free country, lake and peninsula LIBERIA
Ordinary 22, not the Guardian's humour, opening for demon drink HUMDRUM
Revolutionary leader called Ginger? REDHEAD
River of moderate import eroding fragments GIRONDE
Row about alien corn which recurs in 22 for pipe HUBBLEBUBBLE
Rumour in half 22 time in championship - top of table which leads premier to lose point TITTLETATTLE
Shropshire town destroyed in flash SHIFNAL
Trifle with half 22 to cheat foreign leader - bad FIDDLEFADDLE
Undercooked portion could be Welsh RAREBIT
Weakens international attachments? UNSTRINGS