The Times - Cryptic - Sunday Times Cryptic 4287 - July 27, 2008

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Arrange a place to sleep around discussions DEBATES
Beautiful girl holding a gun is game! BAGATELLE
Being short of ice cream, seventeens play together TUTTI
Change target to a race on the river REGATTA
Cheerless medical practitioner's spike DREAR
Choose the centre of Verona - it's to do with power! ELECTRO
Cigar's revolutionary source CHEROOT
Fictional king, known for his fondness, of course GARGANTUA
Forthright journalist charged DIRECTED
Guys fondle topless stripper at the front ROPES
Heads of some uncooked shark here in Japan SUSHI
I left sign out for crude workers? OILMEN
Kind of eccentric playing from Sting CONFIDENCETRICK
Man crawling taverns SERVANT
Notes player studying the score sheet? MUSICIAN
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Notice man going back to court carrying drug DETECT
Odds on famous racehorse will exhibit vivacity SPARKLE
Old rock star Joe's entertaining the Spanish birds COCKERELS
Paradoxically two runners are bound to win this THREELEGGEDRACE
Parking allowed in Scottish river now it's empty DEPLETE
Regains consciousness being set adrift in lake COMESTO
Resort to monkey business when in clubs and, initially, discos CAPECOD
Slaughterer he may be - but he avoids gore! MATADOR
Slippery character with information about soldier returning in woman's underwear NEGLIGEE
Soaks got up in the morning and demolished retsina MARINATES
Soldiers look about for protection from the elements PARASOL
Some offer rickshaws made of iron FERRIC
Stands up to cruel sisters RESISTS
The way out, say, on ship EGRESS
Too unpleasant - like the guy in the spaghetti movies? NAMELESS