The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 24,693 - May 7 2009

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Clues Answers
Assemble outside the right church to see bride's fine MERCHET
Bird with mutable posterity (except tit) OSPREY
Blame for dropping off front of stage ODIUM
Clown Prince GRIMALDI
Dollop on a plate like the web GLOBAL
Dug up material from below? MINED
Food to entail many in preparation ALIMENT
For the old to smoke in church sounds reasonable CENSE
Getting me in line, wife's skills are needed FEMININEWILES
Gravity among raving Dior fans could be cool SANGFROID
It contains cheese spread to make a slippery surface ICESHEET
Lacking potentialilty of sire, let off STERILE
Like the firebird, nothing less FLAMING
Many a girl gathers piles for a skinflint CHEAPSKATE
Old brewer includes a bit of enzyme to make it WHITEBREAD
Clues Answers
One of the classic letters patent for a type of power NUCLEAR
One should abstain from putting one's name to it PLEDGE
One with no faith in left-wing hero INFIDEL
Piper creation unknown by the lady, being marginal PERIPHERY
Plant that makes one free IRID
Plant — perhaps that's 22 when cropped LOBELIA
Proverbial episcopal confidential adviser ACTRESS
Runabout, as is perhaps a droshky? RUSSIAN
Scottish port where anything goes? OBAN
Sheba, say, and king she entertained with free gifts BAKSHEESH
Showy girl's bereavement in heartless family FLOSSY
Some great construction? GASOMETER
Spare in the direction of Paddington? FORBEAR
Wrong direction taken by writer AMISS