The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 22231 - December 24, 2002

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A pound - some capital in USA ALBANY
A secretive person taken in by carpenter OYSTER
Always hanging around behind New Englander, for instance EASTERNER
Artists included a monk RASPUTIN
Bird changed attire in high-performance car GREATTIT
Boy meeting girl in Indian province once BENGAL
Campanologists should be up to speed KNOWTHEROPES
Close and intimate MEAN
Due to be successful in return game OWING
Exhausted? With a breather, fish will provide unlimited sport ALLINWRESTLING
House with shed in road leading to river LANCASTER
Infringement of rules produces such ancillary effects KNOCKON
Instruct cheat to reform TEACH
Interrupt endlessly, being disorderly and nastily obsessive PRURIENT
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Macbeth, say, works in Latin OPERA
Making love by sea with musicians - it offers a gamble ONEARMEDBANDIT
Most annoyed, discovering garment without its accessories SHIRTIEST
Poet like Humpty-Dumpty - heartless OVID
Reveal British girl, 19, has been converted BRINGTOLIGHT
Rove bow line PROWL
Say nothing, just drink EXPRESSO
Some valetudinarians were fit ANSWER
Son needs to be discriminatory SEXIST
Superfluous ruffles attached to front of shirt NEEDLESS
Surprise attack made by a doctor on American husband AMBUSH
This covers head - king, queen, premier KERCHIEF
This evening's hotting up TONIGHT
Writer who discovered an element PRIESTLEY