The Guardian - Cryptic crossword May 23 2008 crossword clues & answers

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The Guardian - Cryptic crossword May 23 2008

Clue	Answer
A specialist shop is opening	OUTLET
Cast of beginners to see how everyone differs	SHED
Choice articles from museum science room, including original urban man	VALUABLES
Creature on soft slope	RAMP
Dance round trees by lake in Yorkshire	HELMSLEY
Distraught, he can't hope to get off lightly	ONTHECHEAP
Divine, holding girl with time off	HOLIDAY
Dog caught in lobster trap after son gets the bird	SCREECHOWL
Europe has nothing to lose, changing currency	RUPEE
Frisky about being at university, maintaining a loyal interest	SUPPORTIVE
Go quickly, wrapping redhead in topcoat	VARNISH
Greatly inclined to take Walesa as English by race	STEEPLECHASE
Haggard heroine comes upon first religious Father to be a mountaineer	SHERPA
Hinder in law directions given to spinner	ESTOP
I came bounding in, the parrot being disputatious	POLEMICAL
Join companion on strike	HITCH
Last drink? On your own head be it	NIGHTCAP
Little by little, male chin undergoes transformation	INCHMEAL
Liverpudlian society needs firm handler	SCOUSER
Mistaken and certain to be taken up about early duplicating machine	ERRONEOUS
Newspaper metaphor G and S take to heart	ORGAN
Padre's a composer of marches	PARADES
Poor? I'm very old, retired, coming in chilled to the bone	IMPOVERISHED
Ruffian to get a division of the spoils (hot art, perhaps)	CUTTHROAT
Spirited witticism in heaven?	SPUNKY
Surgeon who will do you if he can	OPERATOR
Wages heard to be up	HIRE
Wife having advantage over daughter gets stuck	WEDGED
Wonderful friend, capturing female to love to pieces	PHENOMENAL
Writer mostly astray	AMIS

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