The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 25,543 - Jan 27 2012

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Clues Answers
Answer for a punctured tyre? SOLUTION
Arm spoilt in more ways than one? PISTOL
Brief turn by Waller, loud with 12, needing extra hands SHORTSTAFFED
Caroline's first partner, a man of substance CHUBBY
Contend with French actor turning up in the distance MILITATE
Dances with a shadow minister BALLS
Description of strange coteries? ESOTERIC
Digital sketch? THUMBNAIL
Each test one plays is artistic AESTHETIC
Enter scruffy friend without end ETERNALLY
Former minister seen in the Carlton or the Athenaeum HEATH
Fruit may be elevating, though not entirely RAISIN
Get cosy with a food provider? NESTLE
It's not cheap to build a monument CENOTAPH
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Minister the senior service finds dotty, as is the coalition GOVERNMENTAL
Model raced to practise athletics, maybe train … TRANSPORT
Molesworth's version of 'It is a truth universally acknowledged … ” ASANYFULEKNO
Note returned by a cheese-maker RENNET
Oddly puts on pretensions of being at a higher level UPSTAIRS
Old college learned about student with several languages POLYGLOT
Order heartless lady requires at once DIRECTLY
Red not English, but may be hidden in the closet SKELETON
Sea off Tripoli with a leitmotif? THEMED
She's about to live free — or the converse? BRIDE
Sound of sound poet NOISE
Tropical ailment? CANCER
Writer of letters to the Queen? MAILER
… track for each chap went variably with a variable PERMANENTWAY