The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 22,924 - Sep 1 2003

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Clues Answers
'Dog gets bit' - final news item TAILPIECE
A run to clinch the match? ELOPEMENT
Book a strong man ATLAS
Bound to give others credit for reform RESTRICTED
Canteen stew? MESS
Colonel's aircraft BLIMP
Firm purpose to settle RESOLVE
House-warming arranged for Alice COALFIRE
If done, it might be reported NOTIFIED
Inferior saucepan TINPOT
Instrument for one in the performing arts SITAR
Is upset, internally affected by seafood SCAMPI
Job wasn't made any easier by advice from this dummy COMFORTER
Joint censure about southern vessel carrying spirit HIPFLASK
Move king to a stronghold CASTLE
Clues Answers
One among many getting up to work TOIL
One form of insurance covers home and vast lands CONTINENTS
One responsible for statue of mother and child? STONEMASON
One to do it wrongly IDIOT
One's pedometer will show how fast one went SPED
Place equipped for stock dispatch ABATTOIR
Propellers for jumbo jets? ELEPHANTSTRUNKS
Rejection? Not as a rule EXCEPTION
Salerno a French city? Could be! ORLEANS
The jam-making trade? TRAFFIC
The others pop in for a meal REPAST
This old boneshaker is a strangely loved piece VELOCIPEDE
Where ships anchor in island sound ROAD
Writer's block? NOTEPAD