The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 24,770 - Aug 5 2009

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Clues Answers
Abridgment of the first letter to Araucaria EPITOME
Bow of sailing boat in outline SKETCH
Count about right: an idiot in bother just as always happens TRADITIONALLY
Emphatic refusal of oxygen: 'Enjoy!' was misconceived NOWAY
Emphatic refusal where I might hope for some mourning OVERMY
Emphatic refusal, one for Blair: rule only when reformed NOTON
Fabrications about remote battles WARFARE
Forward or circulating, drink coffee I make PERCOLATOR
Gingerbread, good company, empty saloons here in America PARKINGLOT
Height nought feet — not good to go up maintaining that ROOFTOP
Hospital on the box which begins in Jerusalem HOLBYCITY
In France I enter cup match backed by fool across the border EEJIT
Initially an abstainer going round trees ATFIRST
Literary present from box office with agreement to receive information BOOKTOKEN
One sort of letter said to indicate confession AVOWAL
Clues Answers
Putting gloss on news by a companion, one of the Greens SPINACH
Queer chappies lacking ecstasy for Lesbian SAPPHIC
See 16 JOSE
See 17 YOURNELLY
See 24 DEADBODY
See 3 THINKSO
Single payment to self-employed workers for half a season LUMPSUM
Sound of water moved by what steers a lot of ships FLOTILLA
Table fork used in the soup? FLATBROKE
Understated refusal: add 'I'm not' for Cartesian inference? IDONT
Valley and river of noble descent join up RHONDDA
Wasn't a performer in 'The African Queen' DIDO
Where to treat one held in endless embrace CLINIC
Work keeping unhealthy early hours — it's wicked OILLAMP