The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 23332 - July 4, 2006

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Closed a Spectator magazine PRIVATEEYE
Composer adopting court as a stage in Trial by Jury VERDICT
Contrary to what's accepted for each section of the Bible PERVERSE
Court resistance over Arab state church ROMANCE
Fool's gold? It could turn out to inspire tyro! IRONPYRITES
Giant read about in Mother Goose OGRE
Got hint about the coming time for retirement TONIGHT
Ground given by one military alliance to the east of Germany OSTINATO
Household items daughter and wife get in Zimbabwean city HARDWARE
Hunt without foxes is a bore DRAG
Hurry and start cooking the fish GETONESSKATESON
In pieces newspaper chaps sent in to broadsheet editor FRAGMENTED
Is it, say, lover chiefly wanting not to leave till morning? STAYOVER
Learner driver breaking girl's bone ULNA
Mater mater OEDIPUS
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Mineral spring - it includes phosphorus SPA
Missing sailor went down about noon ABSENT
Nation state from the period seventeen fourteen to eighteen thirty, mostly GEORGIA
One doing a turn in stage show? DICKWHITTINGTON
Producer of rolls in the kitchen? KETTLEDRUM
Provide sustenance, support and grub CATERPILLAR
Soldier who's often seen in pub REGULAR
Soon devoid of credit ANON
Spasm leading to immediate collapse TIC
Temporary stone work at break in wall, say STOPGAP
Thick okra's regularly cooked in the Indian fashion TIKKA
Three points on tooth began to make it like nothing seen before NEWFANGLED
When student might travel, squandering pay into illegal drugs GAPYEAR
Wine at first makes us be sick MUSCAT
With time, ceremony becomes hackneyed TRITE