The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 25,087 - Aug 12 2010

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Clues Answers
'Number's up' is spiritual knowledge GNOSIS
A spinner's short period in work GYRO
Able to take part in sport, preserving body COMPETENT
Almost sated inside, monarch's stand-in is radiant REFULGENT
Bush given a life without need, tension and Henry BLACKTHORN
Charge round opening of roof on the house FREE
Daughter, hit with much cash, backs dramatist STOPPARD
Determined underworld criminal HELLBENT
Doubly firm, top grade drink COCOA
Essential element of jam trade TRAFFIC
Finest 50,000 sheets of paper in modern terms CREAM
Goo: youngster swallows litre! PULP
Label report of familiar ex-captain GUCCI
Launch of biography (uncompleted) by posh person LIFTOFF
Legless and short? They're just the opposite TIGHTS
Clues Answers
Line in scrap, which might be cut for a cockpit FLIGHTDECK
Marie Stopes's housing sign ARIES
Night visitor with cash for discarded item of dining equipment TOOTHFAIRY
Nutty quality Dan introduced randomly into jam MADNESS
One wearing tailored 'tar' strides, which are awful to get into DIRESTRAITS
Plastic, offbeat, direct comedian CREDITCARD
Produced too many eggs with a coating OVERLAID
River rats patrol POLICE
Scoff at Delhi's odd, non-independent support for capital punishment THESCAFFOLD
Scour rocks after meat and drink LAMBRUSCO
Secure a job, almost ANCHOR
Soften back massage, taking in middle of shoulders BLUR
There's nothing in waste, having lost US city DETROIT
Top of London Eye can't, when revolving without energy/gas ACETYLENE
Visionary sporting tutu: first time away FUTURIST