The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 22,628 - Sep 18 2002

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... Tarry - stuff could be in the post CREOSOTE
A flyer cut short by drink BITTER
A sin soldiers left behind as part of cleansing LUSTRAL
Beaks begin as conveyers of offerings MAGI
Components Simon mislaid, lacking responsibility NONCOMPOSMENTIS
Confused model with a right to a peerage EARLDOM
Constant withdrawal from capital turning City into stimulating reaction CATALYTIC
Demonstration by Consignia? ... EXPO
Die in attempt to get with it TRENDY
Erstwhile bit of an opera THREEPENNY
Firm's custom is to have a single partner COHABIT
Girl turns up in right place for vacation RESORT
Half the alphabet is minute ATOM
Hard boundary, hard to go over - it's prickly HEDGEHOG
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Hear about fiddle playing for a funeral BURIALOFTHEDEAD
I forgot to say, youth club leaders may explode, so mind! PSYCHE
Model sermon could be a fearsome thing MONSTER
One discontented king outdoing Uriah? GRUMBLER
One's words may lead to action SLANDERER
Paper peculatio THEFT
Queue at frontier - luggage may be near the limit BORDERLINECASE
Ravel (sic) designed instruments CLAVIERS
School education first to be given weight ETON
They may have you covered, but certainly won't initiate fire INSURERS
Time for parental preparation? PRENATAL
Time, perhaps, for police raid PERIODICAL
Type we need information about GENRE
With abstruse reading, impress the highest in Oxford DREAMINGSPIRES