The Guardian - Cryptic crossword May 25 2005 crossword clues & answers

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The Guardian - Cryptic crossword May 25 2005

Clue	Answer
A thousand never 26 - they trying to be clever?	KNOWALLS
Aaron Copland's first composition involves one instrument	OCARINA
Advertising vehicle?	TRAILER
All fingers and thumbs in Paris - that is, the South	DIXIE
Arrive earlier, like blood entering head	PREDATE
Blood bath, though horse protected?	CARNAGE
Bond hit the booze	RAPPORT
Entertainer that's appreciated pranced around	TAPDANCER
Floor scheme crushed - not entirely flat surface	GROUNDPLAN
Gorilla seen with a crook?	PRIMATE
Hangover resulting from heavy drinking	BEERGUT
How long might she be expecting, say, having turned up at Victoria?	GESTATION
Imminent knocking back of hard liquor	NIGH
Most inadequate, large ball bearing?	LOWEST
Never licked 23?	ROCKYMARCIANO
One paying bill for immigrant?	SETTLER
Outlaw having to cheat in anything but poetry	PROSCRIBE
Painful to grasp a hundred and twenty	SCORE
Perhaps beat up and down, up and down	MINIM
Playing the jester is Jack's first and only card	JOKING
Promiscuous monk, you say? Don't trust him	LOOSE
Reportedly giant contract	TIGHTEN
Salt provides great modern art	ACETATE
See 17	CANNON
Someone beautiful in face, in parts	DIVISIONAL
Sting, for example, animal, then girl, then me	STAGENAME
Tone down fit of rage	TEMPER
Top 29 cross	APEX
Tubes carrying a river through French city to Italy	MACARONI

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