The Times - Cryptic - Club Monthly 20056 - May 6, 2005

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Clues Answers
A past trooper, I, Byzantine PROTOSPATAIRE
Bail out badly taking on board one thousand minute fish BUMMALOTI
Cabinetmaker working chest in beech, but never chestnut EBENISTE
Caretakers using bogus second phone card SHAMMOSIM
Chinese expert outflanking lecturer and student looking at Turin's treasure SINDONOLOGIST
Delays a doctor a long time AMBAGES
Finely wrinkled carpet you finally allow to be mislaid RUGULOSE
Flattery of stewards can be disturbing SOFTSAWDER
Fungus increasingly seen beside lake MOREL
Furry mammal little seen in European river, on reflection ONDATRA
Legal right established too much ESTOVER
Maori elder gets gold in return after king is given gold rug KAUMATUA
Mollusc - one in pail is moving NEOPILINA
New horse turning up with a parasitic disease NGANA
Newton is got by hanging fruit NARRAS
Clues Answers
Old detectives with backing of force ODIC
Perhaps Beethoven and Wagner's kingly patron LUDWIG
Playing sitars and other instruments SISTRA
Puzzle over cork SUBER
Scottish copper finding diamonds in trunk BODLE
Son gets friend to strike boy SPALPEEN
Spouting nonsense, 007 perhaps grabs edge to loose outer garment SLIPSLOPPY
Thanks to one taking in Peter Rabbit TAPETI
Upset stomach when taking one witch-doctor's medicine MUTI
Wander aimlessly in Glasgow, never quite making pub TAVER
Weaver finch's topping nest (or wild nid?) ESTRILDID
What may be needed for sacking my singers CORCHORUS
What's often seen about head in Troon? MUTCH
Who might come finally to paint Mimi and Auguste in groups? INTIMISTE
Woman in Indian postal service gets one loose-fitting garment DASHEKI