The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 24,978 - Apr 7 2010

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A cord with net design­ed to be tough ASTRINGENT
A load of wine on credit, which is necked? CRAVAT
Angelina's man's packed in — could he have been indoctrinated? BRAINWASHED
Bar opening trap CAKE
Bit with corset strained from childbirth OBSTETRIC
Bloody woman holding heads of people and lowering beneath river, perfect EXEMPLARY
Burn nearly 20 in front of church SCORCH
Clear middle note, as piano is to pianoforte? CLOUDLESS
Cold figure returning to grab last of winter smalls, individually NERVELESS
Current problem, revolutio? SHORTCIRCUIT
Dentist finally going in to identify pain that's most sharp STEEPEST
Dreadful stain baby's left by tap — there's no baby-wetter! ANABAPTIST
Fruit tree polled containing pea, say APPLE
Give jellied eels in rice RESILIENCE
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How babes made erotic porn with a bum PROCREATION
Insultingly, one declining to earn a crust? SCAB
Low point to shake that booty! ROCKBOTTOM
No overtaking, perhaps, as horseboxes like to hog lanes in the end ROADSIGN
Observation of mating bull in market as judge of talent SIMON
One can't take off part of cylinder head RHEA
Playwright after amat­eur actor in relative, no straight man GRAHAMNORTON
See 23 HOLE
See 3 COWELL
Short day needed to collect pound, among one copper — or more? TUPPENCE
Sound of two swallows parting BYEBYE
Starter of bass in stuff to consume as seafood CRABMEAT
Tax man after fool TITHE
Winter sportsman, English in mini? SKIER