The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 21946 - January 25, 2002

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Clues Answers
A desperate appeal to provide cover for legal requests SOLICITS
A rumpus before school period gets one kept in for a while ADINTERIM
Better prepared for battle, being angry UPINARMS
Co-stars making a nightly appearance CASTORANDPOLLUX
Conservative rural community often heard of in the city CAMBRIDGE
Detail troubled me in interval before production LEADTIME
Equipment needed by a capital city RIGA
Escargot? One has good parts for munching! GASTROPOD
Faculty without an obvious reception area? SIXTHSENSE
Gent with ulcer, a tormented member of the family GREATUNCLE
Island gathering of the clans REUNION
Kiss a maiden lady immune to Cupid's darts BUSS
Litter in distant part of allotment maybe FARROW
Managed to be removed on a stretcher? CARRIEDOFF
Mark's rhetorical digression APOSTROPHE
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Mother wants a setting for ornament DAMASCENE
Mum backing up rogue's principles DOGMA
Not allowing passage through a large town after work OPACITY
Old man, someone revered in history PAST
Poem set down within English words on stage ECLOGUE
Pretentious handful almost upset social event EFFETE
Pretty person innately able to become a model TYPE
Report of truce spread by degrees PIECEMEAL
Run through unsolved problem RIDDLE
Secure unusual cactus CEREUS
Servant admitting crime in minister's house PARSONAGE
Shakespeare, one admitted to be an inventive man BAIRD
Small son parent's given blanket SMOTHER
Where American detected electricity very quickly INAFLASH