The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 24,738 - Jun 29 2009

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Clues Answers
A convenience for go-betweens AGENTS
A farmhand's share of the food midday? PLOUGHMANSLUNCH
Caxton's alphabet soup is not on the menu PRINTERSPIE
Clare, for one, is on fibre pasta ANGELHAIR
Daughter has a charm made of six obols DRACHMA
Deprived official caught in gamble BEREFT
Drive reform of limp English IMPEL
Flowering shrubs cover one South American port and another ROSARIO
Formal description of the people in talkies ALCOHOLICS
Full of chopped dates SATED
Generally, a time when kisses are counted ELECTION
Horrified that handbag has toads inside AGHAST
How Narcissus dedicated his book? TOME
I thought out a plot PLATO
Clues Answers
It makes for a comfortable retirement ELECTRICBLANKET
It's regularly cut one out in the rear TOENAIL
It's used to review North Pole area AEROPLANE
Language spoken close to us FINNISH
Measures of total commitment HANDANDFOOT
Old woman's skirt-pocket PLACKET
One of a number that followed 19, say GROUPIE
Place where blades hang out BANGLADESH
Sadie's naughty whispers ASIDES
Surviving evidence that old widow was short of time RELIC
Swedes in the cabbage patch ABBA
Tom's cutting workers SAWYERS
Useless editor played the fiddle SCRAPED
Where uncle stores his pieces PAWNSHOP