The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,062 - Feb 11 2004

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Clues Answers
9 5's friend to cowards, not converts DOCTORWATSON
Bombshell about fairy king breaks around setter and solver SHERLOCK
Breeding ground with bottle? HOTBED
Copper with 9 5 for the roads in Rome LESTRADE
Desired contents of Keats's 10 turned to mush post bellum THEWARMSOUTH
Fellow takes to painting plus music with great enthusiasm HEARTANDSOUL
Good fellow craves effect of good joke? STITCHES
Hide concealing game with piste SKIRUN
Like an owl finding loose bits of rock at centre of churchyards SCREECHY
Mug finds drug in 23 BEAKER
Old magistrate goes south, intersecting equator (very nearly) QUAESTOR
Polls with aesthetic tastes opposed to 9 5 MORIARTY
Port with towers has business round in fashion TREBIZOND
Potential Poet Laureate hurries to get top job RULERSHIP
Clues Answers
Romance - be friends again! MAKEITUP
Sailor from the East left a hurtful mark LASCAR
See 22 ADLER
See 23 STREET
See 9 HOLMES
Sounding like the sacred ambition, possibly, in somewhat colourless style GREYLY
Specially nice cakes, say, for 9 5's place BAKER
The Norfolk Pimpernel, poet and soldier BLAKENEY
Times up at last OMEGA
Tinker eating honey going up one's nose? SMELLY
Windjammer right up to chief blower TRUMPETMAJOR
Wintry reflection by owl: NB sadly in decline SNOWBLINK
Without time to choose I have been working OPERATIVE
Wrath at hand, in which we get led astray by 9 5?'s 'The Woman' IRENE