The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,816 - Jul 12 2006

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'13 24 and don't ___' SPARETHEHORSES
A good measure of habitation in Aquitaine AGEN
Abhorrence about one stage in fungal development OIDIUM
Act in walk-on parts? TREAD
Beam of light ran somewhere within TRANSOM
Billy Connolly's one in convict's clutches LAYINGS
Cheat taking a cut CHISEL
Church or Tallis composition giving support for the singer CHOIRSTALL
Close affiliations with pyjamas have they? NIGHTIES
Done Maugham's bone of contention? Sadly, some abandoned his book OFHUMANBONDAGE
Exploited employee of the Washington Post? USED
For hard work one's a byword, for art? No judge unfortunately TROJAN
Hysteric, overstretched soprano heard as La Bohème? SCREAMINGMEEMIE
Kentish Man, I'm holding uranium element SELENIUM
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Last call at Westminster when the Tardis returns to base WHOGOES
Left one with desire to embrace Society for Preservation of Bats, when pressed LINSEED
Moriarty his chosen subject? MASTERMIND
Oil state ruler thus consecrated? ANOINTED
One of the Shakers making or breaking the circuit? TREMBLER
See 1 INREASON
See 1 HOME
See above THEBOARDS
State declaration of my intent; one is no pushover ILLINOIS
The governor's a tyrant when lifting the gin SATRAP
The rain is now falling moderately WITH
Where to hole a vessel among the fleet AMIDSHIPS
Writer's block, he's unable to begin JAMES
Yet more contempt generated by such presumption? OVERFAMILIARITY