The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 24,877 - Dec 8 2009

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Clues Answers
A shade off colour writing in French a Latin term INFRADIG
Alsace girl learning to conserve water LORRAINE
Chap loading bullet, ultimately an assassin HITMAN
Chump steak, perhaps, served with loaf MEATHEAD
Everything in America Whitehall echoed — an abomination! THEWHOLE
Exact Page Three rule rejected SPOTON
Figure dropping hot box, perhaps TREE
Husband hugs husband, as men regularly do? SHAVE
Inlet cut into feature above lip THEWASH
Island needing con to be real? CRETE
JFK, perhaps, bearing left AIRPORT
Like brothers, getting on in gum tree MONASTIC
Man on street in winter month needing retrieval after puncture, calling for AA? FLAT
Member of crew returns to book finally, having to revise REWORK
Molest a little higher? TOUCHUP
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Page 100 in 'Othello' amended for the current producer PHOTOCELL
Pedant, one stealing mine from Spooner? NITPICKER
Plant given shower east of Bordeaux, say REDPEPPER
Poetic movement, where one little publication is minute IMAGISM
Relative is irrelevant to discussion (once removed) SECOND
See 10 COUSIN
See 25 ENCHILADA
See 26 CHESTED
Sloth offering some squirrel dinner, as sloth sleeps? IDLER
Smoke emerging from champion in bed CHEROOT
Sudden announcement, as the latest figures initially taken in cut NEWSFLASH
Supposed spitter has trouble backing plant CAMELLIA
United then top SOLID
Withdrawal from meeting about Ecuador SECESSION
Young girl, gripping one hand as difficult parting WRENCH