The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,068 - Feb 18 2004

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Clues Answers
18's first lady outside the border ADAMBEDE
18's gold-backed tooth (detail) ROMOLA
18's heart needing 20 hearts MIDDLE
18's sailor's first off - first sails off SILASMARNER
18's so-called happy man at home on the river HOLT
18's venerable Ulsterman getting on amid artistic nihilism DANIEL
6's bird's opposite number VISAVIS
Burlesque with outlets for game SKITTLES
Copper under training in a line from the kitchen CULINARY
Don't keep us in the dark: it's Earth TELLUS
Earth or horse? (Reactionary Labour writer) GEORGEELIOT
Equivocator gets change through being put out PALTERER
French boy for Mother Church? MARC
Clues Answers
In Welsh mouths, not English, second people on the run ABSCONDERS
Message about ruler to go up: no 37.5p licence fee was needed WORKINGDOG
Norman style leader HARTNELL
Nurse goes round African country, being of no fixed abode VAGABOND
One French and several German children are not so gentle UNKINDER
Plant or horse for 22 SORREL
Report of eyeglass belonging to monk MONACHAL
Sad end of 18's workplace on the river LOSS
See 4 DERONDA
The Queen is in the joint, scoffing DERISIVE
Unidentified beast with no head in place of monster NAMELESS
Vocation in 18's scenic book CALL
You need to ride craftily to manage a title EDITOR