The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 24,580 - Dec 24 2008

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A little wind from the rear, producing tune ARIA
Apple warmer, though not hot EATER
Beginning to advance, a sharply shifting stream of charged particles ALPHARAYS
City light filled with gas, exploding GLASGOW
Detail of Germanic etymology NICETY
Doubly caddish musician? SNAKE
Essay penned by school square, a killer STRYCHNINE
Facts on nation, as they say, cobblers, say GENITALIA
Find fault with constituency allocation? IMPEACH
Flatter bottom, straight back! BUTTERUP
Flying boats FLEET
French comic written in twelve symbols NOTATION
Happy as the carpet beetle? SNUGASA
How W-H-E-A-T is? SPELT
Intimate about love, one appearing wet PLUVIAL
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Is padre in disguise? Give up DESPAIR
Maybe solar power applied to car PLEXUS
Messiah initially placed in manger getting nothing for his birthday! CRIMBO
Not entirely glorious state with short, fat person left out in relative abandonment GRANNYDUMPING
Put in little round object, old coin PESETA
Scrabble sloth (ai) exists to create social problem HALITOSIS
See 1 TRAP
See 3 CHARMER
See 5 BUGINARUG
Soaks approaching Arab with a serious drink problem DIPSOMANIA
Sporting ploy of taking left back past first of strikers, if organised OFFSIDE
Stray snatched up by young animal, certainly FORREAL
US city judge so upstanding, insane? SANJOSE
Wail in grief as South African executed, dead ULULATE