The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,439 - Apr 27 2005

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Clues Answers
25 balloon initially when not blown up BLIMP
A harvest with poor soil in Greece ACROPOLIS
Arrange date with Rambo, as being a desirable type DREAMBOAT
Bird's habitat INSIDE
Englishman sees nothing in church order CHOOM
Grave said to contain terrorist leader STAID
Heartless king with wives, excepting last Catherine of varied stock HYBRIDS
Her kissing takes a lot of beating GUNNERSDAUGHTER
Indicator prepared for one trip POINTER
Inscrutable nature of Humpty Dumpty's vocabulary IMPENETRABILITY
Like coteries, perhaps? ESOTERIC
Meat in a bun for a picnic CLAMBAKE
Mutated virus later found to be beyond our scope ULTRAVIRES
Nigel wrongly obtained items from 6 ELGIN
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Old Latin element of north entrance NATRIUM
One that much behind gets set apart ISOLATE
Opera managed to turn toad into princess TURANDOT
Outstanding in flight UNSETTLED
Parson started and attained what he did PREACHED
Poison without copper is not much done RARE
Rest at end of year - or of life DECEASE
Scot in POW camp rising got sent a letter GALATIANS
Smoke volume cut out by force in the island TOBAGO
Soldier, an officer not entirely feeling the loss of his company COLONEL
Stir up in low state MONACO
Swiss banker consumes carved roast, being a man of taste GASTRONOME
There's something fishy about removing lines from bar code CRAB
User did wrong indeed ADDICT