The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 25,253 - Feb 23 2011

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Clues Answers
15 — or should it be Queen? — maybe 19 BATTLESHIP
Be a top copper, more than usually mean? SUPERINTEND
Body of little beauty after 19 VENUS
Carefully select worker to take from 19 HAND
Carer finally comes in to nurse novelist FORSTER
Coming from the Pole — that or the railway? NORTHERLY
Cover for head, right cheek if needed, or 21 for 19 KERCHIEF
Diseased flour cooked and eaten by Liverpudlian missing drug SCROFULOUS
Eager to embrace quarrel with some elders all about tattooing, say NEEDLEWORK
Emperor with foothold out of crease OTHO
General in burlesque resembling a mouse? SLEEKIT
Gesture deriding the Queen needs six 19s SNOOKER
Go away to get in with no contest SHOO
Half time — you nearly made it! MOIETY
Machiavelli's subject, like corruption, includes its leader KINGCRAFT
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Make a noise like the last trump WAKETHEDEAD
Missing lord keeping some British model smoother LUBRICANT
Most of 7 19 watch one after talent HEADHUNTER
One taking interest in turn for having extra security USURER
One willing to bet at a 7, in part TAKER
Painter only worked in colours REYNOLDS
Royal sultanate has nothing against royal family ROMANOV
See 21 PICK
See 23 POCKET
Setter out about to compete with wiper SERVIETTE
Skint, having lost capital through painting 4 ROKEBY
Some said 'an eye for an eye' after 19 KNIFE
Surfaces roads — so Cleopatra doesn't get bitten? ASPHALTS
Took up English football club to effect losing money OUTOF
Work to give power, having a key OPENABLE