The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 25,446 - Oct 6 2011

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Adorable old mongrel LABRADOODLE
Alcohol leads kid also to crack cocaine and morphine, for example ALKALOIDS
Art form that generates spirit and zest STILLLIFE
Assange at last escaping awkward situations and fights SCRAPS
Battled on in a struggle to show what the government owes NATIONALDEBT
Best man unwisely consuming last of wine cellar BASEMENT
Cardinal points to cleric's fancy rings ENCIRCLES
Clasp drink and get on with it BUCKLEDOWN
Dashing to eject girl during broadcast ONAIR
Doctor's exclamation when you take no medication DROPS
Footwear once supposedly controversial at the Cenotaph DONKEYJACKET
Head of convent's eager to preserve it? CHASTITY
Head of salon put rollers in baskets for the juniors SHAMPOOERS
In school next to Empire Theatre HIPPODROME
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Ink is leaking more, we hear SEPIA
Kisser's repellent organ TRAP
Man, perhaps out of his league ISLE
Manoeuvring wide lorry with anxiety WORRIEDLY
Married love entails endless argument in recurring pattern MOTIF
Ring for Victor! LAPOFHONOUR
Show house in Hollywood, perhaps running amok outside OKLAHOMA
Station wagons, say, taking part in Wacky Races ESTATECARS
Stop progress, arrested by frosty mien STYMIE
Strings articulating Pinocchio? LYRE
Team of little people saving energy ELEVEN
They ogle clothing — monarch's in the buff! STARKERS
Too regularly missing allusion ALSO
US conspiracy theorist rumoured to be a woman BERTHA