The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 21884 - November 13, 2001

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Agitator in East End meeting profiteer in Russia? TROUBLEMAKER
Ample make-up on a novel heroine PAMELA
Attired to reproduce Tudor tune TURNEDOUT
Be inquisitive about old marriage, for a laugh NOOSE
Business measure producing small change in Russia COPECK
Chinese outfit where the rent is set aside? CHEONGSAM
Fashion designer originally modelled SHAPED
Fell in the outfield, on the surface SKINDEEP
Fight to get wine in shoulder-bag RUCKSACK
Foreign money to blue - or exchange ROUBLE
Garlic - Italians hold this quite permissible LICIT
Get to the bottom of sound FATHOM
Head Office has to employ those in theatre HOUSE
It shows how low a tramp, for example, may sink before the law steps in PLIMSOLLLINE
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It's a blow - one must take it on the chin UPPERCUT
It's straightforward - soldiers needed leader DIRECTOR
Licence for a certain line? LATITUDE
Move swiftly in pursuit CAREER
Peculiar medieval drug SPECIFIC
Possibly, wild cards could be drawn in the normal way FREEHAND
Red China ill-disposed to accept new obstruction HINDRANCE
Sail with the wind abeam, using compass REACH
Shift time required a cost estimate BUDGET
Token expletive in defiant reponse COUNTERBLAST
Union members in place of worship CHAPEL
Very careful with money, say, put on a racehorse THOROUGHBRED
Where to plug in to secure accommodation PEGBOARD
Withdraws, opponents having no handicaps SCRATCHES