The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 24,778 - Aug 14 2009

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Clues Answers
20 is taken aback on entering INGRESSION
Artist accepted grand home briefly INGRES
Brave type of international joining football team almost LIONHEART
Chief law maker ultimately RULER
Clout means nowt without one? NAIL
Curry favour, centrally hosting laid-on spread VINDALOO
Daffy duck waddles at a funeral pace DEAD
Digital cruncher seeks lift from team THUMBSCREW
Diminish in years, sadly becoming inactive SEDENTARY
Don't talk in front of a fairy's mantelpiece SHELF
Error in invoice associated with assistant clerical post INACCURACY
For all to see (about time, too) OVERTLY
Group of French composers is short of nine LESSIX
Inexperience wears off: name gained success finally RAWNESS
It spins or turns to right ROTOR
Clues Answers
Knowing mechanisms which are between an aqueduct's supports? ARCHWAYS
Language almost dead, going by name LATVIAN
Little information etc about debts likely to be spread INFECTIOUS
Mean (extremely so) of 3 into 5151 + 100 VITRIOLIC
Name an itchy eruption CYNTHIA
See 21 SLOW
See 24 WILLBE
See 24 THEDAY
SF writer's last two characters given a lead role — surely not! NEVER
Sows at power speed? Highly unlikely PIGSMIGHTFLY
Terrible vice: six dropped aitches — give instruction CATECHISE
Time of radioactive decline — 35? HALFLIFE
Unabridged version of 1957 rock ’n' roll classic? Don't count on it THAT
Where material suitable for analysis surfaces? Wishful thinking INYOURDREAMS
YMCA's makeshift metal US plane SYCAMORE