The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 21,848 - Mar 17 2000

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A through line is for the birds AVIARY
Account male responsible for continued pain ACHE
Ask about one, a plant BEGONIA
Bear getting fresh in London PADDINGTONGREEN
Buy shares, though not fully covered, it seems INVEST
City with least potenti-ality to produce literary masterpiece CANTERBURYTALES
Condescend to sound like a dog DANE
Conservatives present at that precise spot RIGHTTHERE
Decorated, we hear, but charge too much OVERLADE
Dramatic scene at one point on vessel SKETCH
Dramatic work produced by testy hands? THEDYNASTS
Enter Queer Street to attack Dickens work FALLONHARDTIMES
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Errand of sorcerer bearing letter MESSAGE
Goes for record in pub game DEPARTS
Novel fruit found by European HUCKLEBERRYFINN
Number of novel steps taken when war broke out THIRTYNINE
One opposed to clergyman going round healing CURATIVE
Rely on scrambled egg, say, to inspire poem GRAYSELEGY
Romantic escapades, but sounding business-like AFFAIRES
Stupefied by artful goddess in bed BEMUSED
Support for speculator BEAR
Tax imposed on car repairs and neckwear CRAVAT
Understood to be in assembly GATHERED
Working cycle going up a hill ROTA