The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 24,806 - Sep 16 2009

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Clues Answers
Action to polish off Frenchman in river TREATMENT
Ancestral building — a royal house LANCASTER
Bend a water pipe HOOKA
Boy has meadow cut? That's a scoop! LADLE
Changeable creature to clean home anew CHAMELEON
Charlie gets a shock from this — fatally so CHAIR
Correct former partner's play EXACT
Half-hearted petition creates outrage APPAL
Helper turns up in allotment and waves RADIATION
I turn green before an attack of giddiness VERTIGO
Let down every single mum in the stronghold FALLSHORT
Material for dainty daughter TWEED
Measure dress from the edge ENDON
Most extensive ten logs chopped up LONGEST
Nothing girl put in hole hides smell DEODORANT
One alone in wearing a vest SINGLETON
Clues Answers
Poor old Bob's uncle SLENDER
Run English nurse to asylum RETREAT
Saint introduced to composer and lexicographer WEBSTER
Saw Bill decline ADAGE
Social worker keeping duty engineer in accommodation APARTMENT
Soldiers about to join up in train RETINUE
Spike follows fence posts in the Middle East PALESTINE
Standards in Internet hosting ETHOS
Supplement is losing dollars still INERT
Swear tripe came badly cooked IMPRECATE
Ten photos developed immediately ONTHESPOT
The fellow apprehending one felon THIEF
Touching performer makes a pile REACTOR
Upending Brad in a barrel is courageous VALIANT
Whack pithy American in London BATTERSEA
Work hard to get a week's break WREST