The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 25,177 - Nov 25 2010

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Clues Answers
Actor offering setter flower ORLANDOBLOOM
Attempt to pinch bottom (Widdecombe's bottom), worthless stuff TRUMPERY
Back a turn AGO
Biblical character among people, a harlot LEAH
Bulb may be wasted LITUP
Cash here in place of order for butterfly FRITILLARY
Dutch in Rhodes (or abroad) HERINDOORS
Engagement ring ripped from rampant toad, marriage's ending? DATE
Farrier starts to ride stallions, every steed wrapped by Father Christmas, perhaps? HORSESHOER
Filth repulsed in broadcast, commanding attention STRIDENT
Hardy novel about capital of Ireland — or of somewhere else? RIYADH
Hosiery primarily confiscated by officer in dissolute cabinet CHIFFONIER
Hot dog filled with hot cat? PANTHER
Large chap backing female — as female DISTAFF
Letters mixed up in this anagram of 'Paul has to be the foremost of pillocks!' ALPHABET
Clues Answers
Love: it comes up in county as loyalty DEVOTION
Marilyn's husband, he with a literary tale? MILLER
Mix porridge here STIR
Nelson's ultimate ally, hot maid misbehaving? LADYHAMILTON
Old star not widely accepted as deity OSIRIS
One drugged in myth, some years on consuming flower to save time LOTUSEATER
One opens gold sweet GATEAU
Raid Scrabble tiles J, A, Z, Z, I, L — what wouldn't one give ___ ? FORAY
Running, I did so backwards — ouch! INAROW
See 3 SOUP
Single European into poet, his artistic interest superficial? DILETTANTE
Thingummy making parties from the left and right sigh DOODAH
Weed obscuring duck, work to see bird HOOPOE
Well, the answer should __ here FIT
You overlooking partners? Past it and still on the shelf? UNSOLD