The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,194 - Jul 14 2004

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Clues Answers
A coal tit changing gear TAILCOAT
A council carried in the main ABOARD
Bird disheartens artist LORY
Bird in bar holding a nose? ROADRUNNER
Bird in romp LARK
Bird painter after endless capital CARACARA
Bird painter circling round pass PRATINCOLE
Bird publication on food MAGPIE
Bird rushed 'eadlong into rigged vote TURTLEDOVE
Bird throws duck from transport SCOTER
Bird to show off CROW
Bird to stain vessel MARTIN
Bird wants hot love FLAMINGO
Bird wing's half breaking nut PELICAN
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Bird with ringleader, gunman SNIPER
Bird, headless chicken RAVEN
Bird, small bird SMEW
Bird-like swaggering finds a business in bird-like order PEACOCKING
Birds here with a small figure wearing shifts AVIARIES
Birds' sexual partners here, a sacred sign? APIARIES
Exercise like dance detailed in background PEDIGREE
Football side, not cricket side, to turn inside out EVERT
Mark up boy, schoolboy ETONIAN
More hackneyed passage from 'The Winter's Tale' related STALER
Office open without a single state CLERICAL
Persuasive quote line I missed by mistake ELOQUENT
Ruler describing date of springtime event? MONARCH
Sweet talk left during argument BLARNEY