The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,445 - May 4 2005

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Clues Answers
'No music', you tell the mess with haughty scorn CONTUMELIOUSLY
21 for refuse collector on leave BINGO
Add one to my church number before the operation APPENDICECTOMY
Audience of aristocrats in stockings HOUSE
Day consumption - some red roses in the Alps MONTBLANC
Dog did more than bark at little old coin TRAYBIT
Encouragement to strike raised in case of a trifle ATTABOY
Erring ringer with half tale extending beyond biography LARGERTHANLIFE
Firm insured for being cleaned too harshly? SCOURED
Get tanned via the web - modern way EMBROWNED
I doubt if an austere person would go topless and embrace the piano SCEPTIC
I produced absurdities, as 1 1 = 3/7ths of 17 down IONESCO
Made 1 across and dynamited? BLOWNUP
Novelist from America entering the abused NHS when sick SUSANHILL
Clues Answers
Perplex and deceive, accepting endless cry of surprise FLUMMOX
Punishment about a cab I left on which I should be paid ROADTAX
Ring time? It's a celebration for Stephen BOXINGDAY
Russian general with the French resting place LEBED
Series of games not brilliant, being often showered on RUBBERMAT
Sound horn at hospital entry, thus setter is to be relished? TOOTHSOME
The proverbial shooter MAXIM
Tortoise makes exam turn to party TESTUDO
Trade union going leftward as instructed TUTORED
Venetian painter's 21 LOTTO
Weary feeling causes primate to inhale oxygen LANGUOR
Where Caesar beat Pompey, thus grabbing a bit more writing THAPSUS
Wodehouse's 22's autobiography, a bit at a time LITTLEBYLITTLE
Yarn from Innisfree? LISLE