The Times - Cryptic - Sunday Times Cryptic 3948 - January 20, 2002

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Animal painting hard, for him? HOGARTH
Artist's interpretation of clouds STRATI
At work in it HARNESS
Cat's meat I mince and chew MASTICATE
Dashed off - it's time to run in the river! EXTEMPORE
Decimals are apt to do so RECUR
Her bad lads scattered garbage BALDERDASH
In dire need, student is at last signed up ENLISTED
In flight commercial - quite a lark ESCAPADE
Incomplete article on career gets the bird THRUSH
Inexpensive ring? LOCALCALL
It is clean in action though lacking resilience INELASTIC
Mixed-up tar going round the bend, attacked people BITUMEN
Moderate one's mood TEMPER
More than time to change ends? OVERDUE
Nothing in jar I opened? There's wine! RIOJA
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Noting a bird is cut out in the editing HEEDING
Novelist with a beam, tucked into Indian bread NARAYAN
Part of the loan, note, covers the farm TRANCHE
Prominent place I shall take initially, in the dance HILLTOP
Quoted as having sound vision CITED
Salt water though one might expect tap water from it MAIN
Science article to examine SCAN
Setter nips viciously, hanging on PERSISTENT
She's rejected artificial intelligence stuff MARCIA
Some other one taken for chap we revere HERO
Standard size fabric for exotic doge's cope I slip into PIECEGOODS
Stick to bucking pinto? Courage needed! GUMPTION
The sort of strikes that please the public? HITS
The untouchable? MISER
Warning on bridge of collapse FOREBODING
With speed it has burrowed into the vegetable CELERITY