The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,709 - Mar 9 2006

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Clues Answers
'Keep your options open', says Frenchwoman DITHER
5 closeted, as a rapper might say, with culinary challenge VINDALOO
Boil off stewed fig, say GASIFY
Coarse 'orsemen full of bitterness in North America UNGALLANT
Column of Dutch sheep? NEWEL
Computerisation reveals places of origin UTERI
Debauchee drinking gallons of make-up ROUGE
Drains jug carried by guru SEWERAGE
Drink to old women in rural setting MEADOW
Eking out stored fodder at critical juncture KNIFEEDGE
Fail to drain udders before court d-drama UNDERMILKWOOD
Get sick of turning leaves FOLIA
Impenetrable composition leading to audience's discomfort OPAQUE
Junior swimmer continuously bearing left ELVER
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Love to receive Romeo's mail, perhaps ARMOUR
Marine transport ordered for a lost holiday HYDROFOIL
Maybe Franklin's backer switched poles INVENTOR
Ming (or Maoist) measure in metamorphosis, maybe ALLITERATION
Mitigates impact of huge rats running amok aboard lighter SUGARSTHEPILL
Northern Europe mostly ill-disposed to seaweed NULLIPORE
Novelist holds figure up for extermination GENOCIDE
Old rascal forfeiting right to attendant VALET
Pregnant, not dead, in Lugosi's part of London BELGRAVIA
Silvery sailor keeps quiet on leaving capital ASHBLOND
Spice Boy taken in by twister CORIANDER
Try to sell solver foreign language PUSHTU
Welsh setback in case of wasting DEGENERATIVE
Wine, duly fermented, may be hard to handle UNWIELDY