The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 24,299 - Jan 31 2008

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Clues Answers
American university's last lopped tree CORNEL
Another helping helpers SECONDS
Be prepared for bear getting past STANDBY
Canteen counter provided with articles NAAFI
Exercise on bottom SITUPON
Film clip's first shown on ferry trip on way back CRYFREEDOM
Find sovereign in bank TERRACE
Fool around with language on sticker GUMARABIC
For 'irrigated' read 'wet ground' WATERED
Girl cuts sound of generators DYNAMOS
Grandma is entertained for a month in Israel NISAN
Helen's mother in Swaledale LEDA
Historian from Turkey, a penetrating diaris TREVELYAN
Inferior with shoes extremely dirty SHODDY
Lead for Anthony Hopkins - if tortured with red-hot pokers KNIPHOFIAS
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Led astray in the act like Marvell's mistress DECOYED
Mess making sense SIGHT
Monster undergoing partial inversion OGRE
Offer to pay for novice TENDERFOOT
Old poet with sore head writes hospital drama SPENSER
Play about bird almost seen by an American CORIOLANUS
Rat's nest - or cable tangled in drawer OSBERTLANCASTER
Round fruitcake served with a fish TUNA
Schoolmaster in novel acquires row of desks - so I must be expelled WACKFORDSQUEERS
Small beast in boat SCOW
Spice more or less swallowed by horse PIMENTO
SR beams? RAFTERS
Taking hour off, poet runs round Japanese city SAPPORO
Turn your head yellow? WINDY
Writer making fly croak RUSHDIE