The Times - Cryptic - Sunday Times Cryptic 4042 - November 9, 2003

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A gin's uplifting in an austere place SPARTA
A man needed to ring tuberculin-tested duck OTTO
Abstraction of ten - car breakdown TRANCE
Advocated dope's use - disastrously ESPOUSED
Animals in the pound OUNCES
August, when one finds holy man at cathedral site STATELY
Briefly, state hip replacement's needed for the sultan CALIPH
Bruised apple you're lucky to get WINDFALL
Censor can do what Canute could not EDIT
Descent, partially roped, from Eiger - tricky! PEDIGREE
Expected to be slow - so it tore around! TORTOISE
Fine stallion carrying one home NEST
He has a part to play, rising in support of the composer BACHELOR
High-handed to notice crooked dice pocketed DESPOTIC
It's no good when old, to go in for chaff BADINAGE
Letter from country-woman LANDLADY
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List books the painter holds ROTA
Mail quiet individual is to pigeon-hole POSTPONE
Maroon thread STRAND
Objections against or in favour of trials PROTESTS
Present sly student dropped, with refusal to conform HERESY
Raved about key part of speech ADVERB
Removes passages EXTRACTS
See - the broken ice does DIOCESE
Specify dock DETAIL
Sponsor two small boys PATRON
Stable mousers holding it back STATIC
Struggles to get right inside Cornish resort STRIVES
Studies precise way to interpret CONSTRUE
Stuff with hair perhaps, as a security measure PADLOCK
Supporter of something that must be cracked EGGCUP
Unite the pair COUPLE