The Guardian - Cryptic crossword May 27 2008 crossword clues & answers

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The Guardian - Cryptic crossword May 27 2008

Clue	Answer
Actress and comedienne who's accompanied by old brute and old composer	WHOOPIGOLDBERG
Breaking through layer, early moisture acts oddly - it rises and falls	TIDEWATER
Character left for holiday destination	AIRPORT
Compound of nitrates in old boys' network?	TRAINSET
Courage shown before something flagged a shade	BOTTLEGREEN
Deal with content of briefs	TACKLE
Doing backstroke, swim round lake with fish - such as this	PILCHARD
Dud pud	DUFF
Ease pain, beginning to pump the contents of my stomach?	PALLIATE
Fiddle with necktie enough not to be taken seriously	TONGUE
Film of the Labour Party between 1980 and 1983?	FOOTAGE
Filthy thing close to eye	STYE
Get plastered on one knee, perhaps	SENDER
Grow to love job as scold	TAKETOTASK
Man perhaps not the first, as first man alone describing T-shirt?	SLEEVELESS
Need, when furious, to contain what one loses when so angry	ENRAGED
Note pops up in a column?	SPINAL
Paddington's stomach	BEAR
Place among collector's items	SITE
Poetess shaves - about time for the queen?	PAMAYRES
Rush payment	CHARGE
See 24	INCHEEK
Short girl eaten by mole	SKIMPY
Tragedies making sister sad	DISASTERS
Upper-class bigot is to peer, roughly, as middle class to lower?	PETITBOURGEOIS
Welsh town penniless under English, Lloyd George once held	PEMBROKE
Where fruit's held briefly	INANUTSHELL
Wine dry, though lips not - that is the drink	RIESLING

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