The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,000 - Nov 28 2003

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Clues Answers
About to become bachelors, blow it! BASSOON
All of the pack and then some seaman DECKHAND
At Portsmouth, then another team TOTTENHAM
Author eating nutty, smelly stuff POMADE
Brave soldier shunned amid shout of encouragement for knight CHEVALIER
Bush dense here, stupid (and abroad) THICKET
Country landowner making life arrangement, but married, not I! GENTLEMANFARMER
It's all over in Nashville: deft hit 'G.I. Blues' - All Shook Up! ELVISHAS
Japanese drink, about a quarter, making one legless SNAKE
Lady Diana manipulated? NADIA
Laugh at Archimedes' fourth eureka HAHA
Little flower with dull centre held by pin RIVULET
March sunny? Not entirely - diabolical DEMONIC
Pacific character of a drug, amphetamine, being reversed DEEPSEA
Clues Answers
Paddy finds last of beer in bar STROP
Place for bingo HOUSE
Plant at awkward angle with part of fork EGLANTINE
Rising duck problem becomes material MUSLIN
See 15 HOTSPUR
See 2 LEFTTHEBUILDING
Sounds like a company car ESCORT
This compiler's game, which is not virtuous? IMPATIENCE
Ticks off after this run-through? SHEEPDIP
To arrange willy-nilly, which Mandelson and Ayling did, is accepted RANDOMISE
Two events in one for cycle, sites of 2004 and 1948 Olympics half-completed BIATHLON
Two thirds weak reversed to get brawn BEEF
Undesirable result of constitutional breakdown in the end? FLATULENCE
Worry about the Queen's nose FERRET