The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 25,260 - Mar 3 2011

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Clues Answers
After head start, wind up on winners' tail: put your shirt on them? HANGERS
Appear memorably as clue for 'head-to-head' SPRING
Clue to U-boat command? ORDERABOUT
Cook flan and invert: fish course is ordered with it VENTRALFIN
Discovery of orchestral torch song performer ALTO
Five-part harmonised note in most of the chorus: Boatman drops out before loud ending NINTHCHORD
Get dad drunk, say, involving a couple of parties BIPARTITE
Head out in car: to turn left, faced eight ways OCTAHEDRAL
Head takes in upper-class boisterousness BOUNCE
Head up onto river crossing in Kent TUNBRIDGE
Head's expression of anger after very poor grade FROTH
Headline? RULE
Heads out of place with Eraserhead's type of entry SETSOFF
High stakes: Sophie's head over heels STILTS
It damages the leaves of roses, leading to wounded pride REDSPIDER
Clues Answers
It protects our heritage from worsening odds. Boatman supports it SPAB
Land of heartbreak? EARTH
Last of its last in first: first of last? FINAL
Mid-afternoon: lay back, stretch and relax REMIT
No limits to usable accommodation ABSOLUTE
Outstanding leap by a player PAYABLE
Persecutor of desperate poor owns the media OPPRESSOR
Railhead activity leads to accident — rain mention­ed in covering letters ENTRAINMENT
Ran back to railhead, headless chicken? Yes, precisely NARROWLY
See 1 TOMIND
Showing no interest in getting much back, making no effort STOLIDLY
Sign of distress in Spooner's dull head TEARDROP
This land is in our heart and it's in the head BRITAIN
Tired out in the head? That's hurtful DETRIMENTAL
When he was fated to die horribly: Julius' finale IDES