The Guardian - Quick crossword No 12,864 - Aug 3 2011

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Clues Answers
Accommodation for road travellers MOTEL
Careful not to cause offence to the disadvantaged POLITICALLY
Clerical or choral garment SURPLICE
Dorset resort LYME
Evasive SHIFTY
Expanse of water LAKE
Explain CLARIFY
Fortune-teller using zodiac ASTROLOGER
In bad health POORLY
Naked runner STREAKER
Name of 5 JOHN
Object of worship IDOL
Clues Answers
Of considerable importance MAJOR
Old Testament prophet AMOS
One insisting on correctness STICKLER
See 12 CORRECT
See 9 REGIS
Slanderous denigration of character SMEAR
Spirited METTLESOME
Stopper — advertisement PLUG
Supposedly suicidal rodent LEMMING
Up-current of air THERMAL
Wreckers of machinery LUDDITES