The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 24,747 - Jul 9 2009

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Backing experiment's object PROTEST
Be in hot water? BATH
Bearing grudge, keeping medic in dark SOMBRE
Brownshirts' officer grabbing spoil from famous piazza SANMARCO
Consider relative merits of adopting Germany as ally COMPADRE
Deep, or denizen thereof BASS
Dread receiving pounds, shillings and pence for mineral FELSPAR
Drinks appointment kept by missionaries APOSTLES
Fulsome speaker's hour tom-tom-beating? MOTORMOUTH
Girl was active, formerly, entertaining troops FLORENCE
Half-train learner in open spaces, returning to place of training SCHOOLROOM
Music-maker cooking broccoli pie without cheese PICCOLO
Overeat, devouring head of Elephant Man GEORGE
Overheads incurred in bronco stabling ONCOST
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Part of 10's second handful SHANK
Partnership cutting grass in town BARNSLEY
Pen note to European leader in awkward situation STYMIE
Police car turning right first, cutting both ways RECIPROCAL
Put off drinking tin or bottle DECANTER
Sacrificial animal to beat back, initially LAMB
Scoundrel, catching cold, turned into parasite LEECH
Shed — no, another setter packed with sex appeal — undergoing change MENOPAUSAL
Stronghold's to experience fresh uncertainty? REDOUBT
Swimmer performing hymn without piano, previously SALMON
Tenor in drunken choir fought for fort? Not in such a dialect RHOTIC
Unhealthy condition of North African — one entering Italy BERIBERI
Wing, maybe, taking nothing from nowhere LIMB
Young man finding Kylie surprisingly sophisticated LADYLIKE