The Times - Cryptic - Times Saturday 22294 - March 8, 2003

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A little time behind? Blast! TRUMP
Advice following failure, initially - take second opinion on case RETRY
Author climbing small tree SUMAC
Bank worker with cold, relatively pale CASHIER
Brilliant, left university with little money LUCENT
Contractor's mistake, making deliveries ahead of order OVERBID
Convert capital of state SAINTPAUL
Dismiss, i.e. fire after cut SHOO
Drive cancelled after drink, we hear TEEOFF
Exhibit haircut on sailor's head in Pacific port SHANGHAI
Fanatical attack seizing British RABID
Final cricket practice before start of test NETT
For example, what makes a clean sweep unlikely? Foul play DIRTYWORK
Medical records doctor fictitiously created for consultant CASEBOOK
No leading player produces awful tinny note NONENTITY
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Painstaking, for a poet, however unrefined THOROUGH
Part of former colony controlled by Victoria's legislators BRITISHCOLUMBIA
Part of sacred opus CREDO
Pick attorney in phony situation MATTOCK
Polish essay written under novelist's pseudonym SANDPAPER
Quickly move to tie up pony DARTMOOR
Quiet person living in Lincoln, for example PRESIDENT
Republican leader is able to make cuts, we hear, in this state ARKANSAS
Revolting act is included by band RISING
Safety device testable in crash SEATBELT
Sort of wagon seen in field out East PADDY
Succeeded with hostile manner in island SICILY
Twenty one's partner, to begin with, receiving bill FIRSTLADY
Volume is in dreadfully poor condition PROVISO
When all else fails, finishing off a tour? INTHELASTRESORT