The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 24,507 - Sep 30 2008

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Clues Answers
'eavenly 'at always a soother ALOEVERA
3's sign, candid, vain or daft LEONARDO
Bird after doctor, seeing severe cut MOHAWK
Bird found in an electric oven? CROW
Colleague's cracker containing fowl's bowels COWORKER
Disappear, seeing Welshman outside English church EVANESCE
Elephants, for example, in a group sensed through the ears, audibly HERD
Finished with school group, as struggling school may go? UPSTREAM
Freud, perhaps, has time to fill in nobleman (detailed) ARTIST
In defence, one's built on suspicion REDOUBT
Last possible holiday destination? RESORT
Left with something to fight about, vocal change INFLECTION
Lower iron, perhaps? DECREASE
Magic formation of flying geese died, swallowed by a number of ducks VOODOO
Clues Answers
Old fight to grab two teas, say, for a light meal OMELETTE
Recognise refusal by the sound of it KNOW
Sea in a holy city MEDINA
See 24 Down LOUSE
See 25 BINLADEN
See 8 DAVINCI
Spooner's 24 9 for the big squeeze BEARHUG
Spooner's metal building an irritating thing? HEAD
Sporting nation rich, after gymnastics CORINTHIAN
Stolen? Pay quickly HOTFOOT
Swimmer sensed surfacing through skin getting hard CUTTLEFISH
Tap: tell me, what do you do if it's stuck? FAUCET
What keeps mum awake at night? Second husband in sulk MOTHERHOOD
Who's after Bush, given the Second Amendment? His running mate's secured northern state; so who's Bush after? OSAMA