The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 24,645 - Mar 12 2009

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'Victory' — focus of flagship vessel to find a measure of knots, say? WINGSPAN
Better party alfresco? OUTDO
Box for old wheels CRATE
Clarify, so now complicated? EXPLAIN
Cold sea true to form AUSTERE
Cool before dice shaken, as expected to win FANCIED
Copper stealing kiss was mistaken for crew member COXSWAIN
Cruise, or line that never arrives TOMORROW
Domestic chore completed in accessing corner HOOVERING
English vineyard providing light shade ECRU
Fabl? SHORTSTORY
Game, or six of them, holding local up TENNIS
Hairy man occupying the sauna ESAU
I was in the van, going up to the shop DELI
Clues Answers
In which government plans men to be gathered by actor Tree, after polling THEQUEENSSPEECH
Major bid may be a lot INSPADES
Oliver Twist, perhaps, in many instances in 1 down ORPHAN
One in five claims books good for copying out text QUOTING
Our feature on which questions end and are dealt with? NOTESANDQUERIES
Past follows present? Let me see NOWTHEN
Pirate's audibly rough manner CORSAIR
Runner needing momentum to bag runs STREAM
Seeing limitation work, one brought into game after half-time OPHTHALMIA
Shocked at inhaling hydrogen in its normal state AGHAST
Skin that's hard as a ball in 1 down RIND
Trees harbouring the kernel of arcane prophecy FORECAST
Unpleasant person in gardener, perhaps, in trouble when in this? HOTWATER
Where cohabitants live, the Church about to prove false INSINCERE