The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 24,814 - Sep 25 2009

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Clues Answers
Air-raid shelter impressing oriental boss shut outside! TESTUDO
Before 'heavy' singer loses central mass, turn over astronomer PTOLEMY
Compiler's cover for 'Listener' — or I'm a Dutchman MYNHEER
Cup-carrying individual's introduction to nurse in liquor store SHEBEEN
Egghead's departing in vessel BOFFIN
Emperor gets around shaving more on the right than the left TSAR
Fool, say, with hair put up DESSERT
Fur supplier has head shaved precisely TOAT
Harden case having got supply, inhaling H CHASE
Having liquorice to cook with her — an extraordinary dish! QUICHE
Is this why people hang out at the Comedy Club? GALLOWSHUMOUR
It'll dry moist places with little adjustment at last to seal you in OASTHOUSE
Joely Richardson's giving up the theatre LYRIC
Measure from Rio, say, gives excellent analysis by statistician … BOSSANOVA
Most bachelors need a varied source of personal morning reading BATHROOM
Clues Answers
Play partly over — misbehave ACTUP
Promise in future to have long boxed details of TV programme TOMORROWS
See 12 LORRAINE
See 14 WORLD
See 17 THEDRAGON
See 23 SCALES
So the enemy's winning nothing — area's within limit OVERAGE
Southern comic getting a bung STOPPER
Spanish chap welcoming a couple of brothers in HOMBRE
Suppose the answer isn't 'a positive Hell'? INFERNO
Tight young women — we might as well have been a mile away NEARMISSES
Unbeliever put chicken in microwave? HEATHEN
Use a cuff, eh? Mad, she drives me CHAUFFEUSE
… and others describing source of riches that is forbidden for ever ETERNAL