The Guardian - Cryptic crossword May 04 2000 crossword clues & answers

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The Guardian - Cryptic crossword May 04 2000

Clue	Answer
Agrees with point composer accepts	TALLIES
Aid to cleanliness to put a chap off?	DETERGENT
Arise from name brought up at first encounter	EMANATE
Article about ancient city by head teacher (No.666)	THEBEAST
Behold the animal's swallowing back tooth!	MOLAR
By arrangement meant some to enter flat	APARTMENT
Condition found in forest at eventide	ESTATE
Eastern tea mixture helps one to find one's bearings	ORIENTATE
Encountered backward training test	TEMPT
Forger makes this minor change	IRONSMITH
Gain by violence from old wrong	EXTORT
Get really cross at barber's carelessness!	FOAMATTHEMOUTH
Great beast seen by the two people round eastern border	BEHEMOTH
Listens to Lear rambling outside after order for final run through	DRESSREHEARSAL
Motown singer to love Italian red	ROSSO
Observe with gravity girl through telescope, perhaps	EYEGLASS
Plant meets disaster in song	ARTEMESIA
Political opportunist has apparently lost weight	TRIMMER
Raincoat with its inside messed up with putty	MASTIC
Remarks of a financial nature, perhaps	NOTES
Robin's song with modern tune?	ADAIR
Stop paper using old army signalling equipment	FIELDTELEGRAPH
Sun turns it into a good conductor	SOLTI
The French marine 'not out 0' against the Russian poet	LERMONTOV
Top child turn has fitting round back	TEETOTUM
Utter immorality spoils man as high flier	AIRVICEMARSHAL
Wan child in loose overcoat	PALETOT
Weapon standard rising? That's right!	RAPIER

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