The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 25,422 - Sep 8 2011

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Clues Answers
3 painter consigns vehicle to ditch VANDYKE
A model for an artist needing a drink ATHIRST
Bed lice make some noise DECIBEL
Beetle having married insect is sleeping DORMANT
Defence gets beast to leave RAMPART
Elevation of monarch about to join followers RETINUE
FH as conceit used by poet SIDEBURNS
FH for 12 having died BEARD
FH for one making meringues, perhaps WHISKER
FH of computer operator accepting informal chat MOUSTACHE
Fiddle encompassing solvers went wrong STRAYED
Funny fuel frames Rufus's final full year COMICAL
Great 12 using top of juggernaut as armour URSAMAJOR
He was beat and needed a cure all right KEROUAC
In a cathedral a service requires concentration LASER
Name for beast makin' beer, do you hear? BRUIN
Clues Answers
Nothing new devised in poet or — mortgage company? HOMEOWNER
Period of The Caretaker? REGENCY
Ploughing with lean horse? TILTH
R for Rebekah REDHEAD
Restrained at home and didn't show hurt inside INHIBITED
Rich man goes down rapidly DIVES
River out of churchyard meandering into Austria, perhaps ARCHDUCHY
Roman two with Latin twist to start with INITIAL
Shaker near to Dickensian whose charity began abroad JELLYBY
Something of Christmas left among the sacred HOLLY
Spirited gadabout swallowing bone DASHING
Sun to depart, right, traditionally without 3 SOLDIER
The Guardian has a line that isn't fresh WEARY
Trenet's song about the heartless supermarket hasn't been here long LATECOMER
Winter ate away Scot and Irish HIBERNIAN
Worked without leader so that all should go smoothly? OILED