The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 25,441 - Sep 30 2011

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Clues Answers
Betoken the last of the wine PORTEND
Close acquaintance not right with the devil FIEND
Day's march for a Roman soldier? MILES
Fabric from Granny Sharp? NANKEEN
For each one baked item is included APIECE
It's pitiful, for instance, in new oboe compos­ition WOEBEGONE
It's some way off a bull — almost BUFFALO
It's this or nothing at breakfast, say OATMEAL
Lest surrounded, soldiers proliferate INCREASE
Meal — tea or one possibly better … AMELIORATE
Mechanic has no end of sanitary work ARTISAN
Nice 1 for some locals MESSIEURS
Olden times where memories are fading? SENIORMOMENTS
Part is said to develop from an old house plant ASPIDISTRA
Primate retains little desire for nourishment APPETITE
Clues Answers
River in Kent occurs in the Wash? RINSE
Sales require boy to get in difficulty MARKETING
Sedative may wander and lose the point … lose the point … DEVIATE
Sermon where one regularly sleeps? ADDRESS
Should tax system turn out for good, result could be sweet REVENGE
Sound of sporty car getting run in? GRUNT
Step of 14 into wrecked semi, from which there's no way out IMPASSE
Superiority is in 4, declares sex expert SHEREHITE
Tawdry stuff in certain eminence STATURE
Time that's endless, never over EVEN
Very hot, like the boy in title's opening letter? PIPING
Wearer of trousers, sort about to be dropped? USER
What's left in remains of a gender issue FAGEND
… state meal with posh cake GATEAU