The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 22,145 - Mar 1 2001

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Alter ego literally left without memory ?- it's the drink! HYDROMEL
Bridge players' call to judgement? LASTTRUMP
Carelessly applying make-up and hairstyle SLAPBANG
Chinese family worth £100,000? TONG
Cracked Matterhorn with Roman Catholic artillery TRENCHMORTAR
Cromwell's cavalry fell, as it were IRONSIDES
Donkey, for one, bearing trap in Tyneside ENGINE
Dressing so flashily no use in new penthouse suite development UPTOTHENINES
Faced paralysis, so possibly left bypass hell without beginning BELLSPALSY
He's OK ROGER
Herald of St Swithun's reign might ordain priest for sacrifice RAINDROP
His written grammar was exemplary: spoken, less tasteful FOWLER
Lister's work applying oxygen to suppuration OPUS
Meeting one's fate in Switzerland? O, fate! CLOTHO
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Morecambe and Wise, we hear, sag from this blooming characterisation ERICACEOUS
Nimrod dished 'avec vin blanc et champignons' CHASSEUR
No chicken with turnip? OLDTIMER
Officer contributing to Dolly Varden''s ignominy ENSIGN
One for sorrow among the chattering classes MAGPIE
One might show contrition for auntie's bloomers, perhaps, and glee with ITC error DIRECTORGENERAL
Rugby training switched in the country PERU
So with Mom''s apple pie, weed out what makes me mad (4-4) HOMEMADE
Some queue outside here to displace Archimedes? BATHROOM
Swimmer more steamed up in Stepney OTTER
Thatcher as Red Queen absorbing energy REEDER
The Camptown plum puller whose stock has points taken off? DEHORNER
Two revolutionaries gamely throwing projectiles from here OCHE