The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 26,440 - Dec 11 2014

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Clues Answers
502 shillings invested in plant covered the wound DRESSED
A flipping flat-bottomed vessel? TUMBLER
Abandoned ship's first to enter West Country town LOOSE
Advantage held by landed gentry EDGE
Aphrodisiac — it's in the heart, rising EROTIC
Beneath top of mainmast, cast-iron case for the quarterdeck, perhaps? MINORSUIT
Byzantine empress turning up in Tenerife IRENE
Cryptically, what might one do with a Cornish pasty and where? That's bliss! BEATITUDE
Currently in office, office in further test RESIDENT
Draw away from Land's End, England trailing rapidly away, Cornwall too, for starters DETRACT
Greek character taking drug with the ability to say 'sausages' backwards? EPSILON
Harmless drunk missing wife, figure touring the bogs INOFFENSIVE
Hitter, jumper and flier CRICKETBAT
Imperfection in desert DEFECT
In some parts of the plant, little troublemaker initially uses insincere praise SWEETTALKS
Clues Answers
Meat cutter that's fast and keen I suspect, cook finally put away STEAKKNIFE
Moving out of Paignton? POIGNANT
Mythical flier, wacky with vulture and raven wings WYVERN
Not entirely green, a South American capital LIMA
Opera coming over in doubly twisted old maestro TOSCANINI
Point about record store DEPOT
Policeman left inside whales PLOD
Retro lighter in the toilet resembling member LAVALAMP
River, one in West Country town — yes, yes, yes! POSITIVES
See 22 NAMEISWOMAN
Something dynamic, perhaps, in horribly dire wet bottom? RIVERBED
Street, then turn for promenade STROLL
Time in West China MATE
West Country town mine, its gold going west? FROME
Words from Hamlet confusing family with satyr in the West Country FRAILTYTHY