The Times - Cryptic - Sunday Times Cryptic 3950 - February 3, 2002

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Crying need? PLEADINGPOVERTY
Daughter, banker's chauffeuse DRIVER
Dead-lines? EPITAPHS
False front removed from alluring graven image ETCHING
Famine inevitable, on dead planet DEARTH
Fixes fruit drinks, adding simple ingredient SHERBETS
Goes by car, maybe OVERTAKES
Golfer's poor excuse? BADLIE
Handed over about a pound for woollen cloth PLAID
Happening to be taking a risk CHANCING
Hide shield SCREEN
I chase panicking birds in Italian port BRINDISI
Insect seen to pull on fisherman's bait DRAGONFLY
Leave the boards, as ordered EXEUNT
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Little pets weaving webs around ancient kingdom EWELAMBS
Merchants handing out cards DEALERS
Nine-act play, from Aristophanes' time ANCIENT
Old war-horse retires, sadly, at beginning of December DESTRIER
Pepper to cool one? CHILLI
Put off by Rolling Stone pop? POSTPONE
Put pen to mouth, in the club NIBLICK
Runners - Iris followed by another girl FLAGELLA
Systems of lines required to catch fish? Proves effective! NETWORKS
Tear, about ten held to be redundant EXTRA
The woman's having a joint? No way to address a duchess! LADYSHIP
Throw bread out - it's hard OBDURATE
Wandering nursery steed left in disarray STRAGGLY