The Guardian - Cryptic crossword December 15 1999 crossword clues & answers

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The Guardian - Cryptic crossword Dec 15 1999

Clue	Answer
A couple of fellows skate and row	AFFRAY
A river skirts Crosby, a town in England	ABINGDON
A shufti round site of air traffic control centre	GANDER
Apron for local tucking into tart	PINNIE
Bob's making fun of needlework	SMOCKING
Brown coal left off fire	IGNITE
City in America canonised in Russia	PETERSBURG
Companion embraces sweetheart with desire - not as it's reported	CLOVEHITCH
Danish king receives ancient request for wood	CHESTNUT
Drink tisane brewed by Lawrence	ANISETTE
Iron Age re-settlement looking initially to be from a certain area	REGIONAL
It is quite clear the monkey is wearing a hat	LIMPID
It's incongruous that one club supports another	IRONIC
Kitchen staff gather in Israel	SCULLION
Native of seaside resort with no good hotel	BRITON
Plain language written about border flower	PRIMROSE
Public beneficiary receives a broadcast	OVERTHEAIR
Reptilian soldier turned to university articles	IGUANA
Rodent roomed with us unfortunately	DORMOUSE
Son strode out when out of his skull	SPACED
Sovereign introduced to metalworker! That's a fluke!	FLOUNDER
Spooks beset people returning from place of entertainment	CINEMA
Statesman embraces one and all on the island. That's sweet	PEACHMELBA
The Parisian follows requirement for a sewer	NEEDLE
The railway in an army camp on an island	BALINESE
Tinker takes one kind of food	SCAMPI
Water soaking away from bedraggled gardenia	DRAINAGE
Writer of note from Fair Isle	CLEMENTI

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