The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 25,097 - Aug 24 2010

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Clues Answers
A crew carrying cross for 24 down? ALEXANDER
Arrange group SET
Being English, two figures face to face with church EXISTENCE
Bottom rock needing bottom wiped BASAL
Crossword setter dropped SHED
Drop into open dish (no lid) a type of pasta LASAGNA
Flag when down, then fade BLUE
Hearts 18 2 CORES
Improper, or not essential, to take heed LISTENTO
Lane hogged by drunk: he's all on his own SOLOIST
Leaving seconds, sample vegetable TATER
Loud speaker essential to 18 2 STENTOR
One proving superior bringing about reprieval PREVAILER
Open road superior to rail AIRY
Painting showing stock passing backwards through entrance to field STILLLIFE
Pickled head on stick ADHERE
Poet finds novelist burying his head POPE
Clues Answers
Pompous bore with dull routine sent up TURGID
Pretty little individual wearing underwear, hot SMALLISH
Punishment making you smart? SPANKING
See 10 MASS
See 18 REASON
See 8 PETER
Service offering visa to cover island capital PAPAL
Show contempt for doppelganger SPIT
Snack, small, slightly stale beefcake? SARNIE
Solution of nitrates present for a boy? TRAINSET
Some coppers (old Italian) SOLDI
Something funny, perhaps, about wood — so put it on here? BONFIRE
Spinner's maiden restricting single shows fibre SISAL
Sweeping clears gale away LARGESCALE
Valid claim RIGHT
Very exciting, filthy habit NAILBITING