The Times - Cryptic - Sunday Times Cryptic 4497 by Dean Mayer - August 5, 2012

Tired of your current crossword puzzle? Try solving our daily crossword puzzles. GO TO DAILY PUZZLES!
Clues Answers
A gas fire AXE
After swapping starters, didn't bite sandwiches? PACKEDLUNCH
Call back company writer BELLOC
Chopped wood? That contains 1000 ends EXTREMES
County gets US money BUCKS
Crush to smaller bits? STEAMROLL
Different people read about mounted jockeys ODDMENOUT
Excessively happy, as priest in attempt to turn boy OVERGLAD
Film following 5 in Sunday sitcom SYKES
Grant a death that's painful ENDOW
Heads for the opera, so chooses an opera TOSCA
Illusionist spirited away, then turning up pointlessly PRESTIDIGITATOR
Isn't "all free" a version of "independent"? SELFRELIANT
Item off a lot SOMETHINGROTTEN
Clues Answers
Lodge shares identical houses RESIDE
Mysterious figure reportedly tied in knots RECONDITE
Number shot in US state at night NOCTURNAL
Old farms, some of the best for cattle rearing CROFTS
Orderly fellow runs behind one? CHAPRASSI
Orthodox Jew can identify himself HASID
Pathetically mortal, a credible politician LIBERALDEMOCRAT
Reptile, one suitable for children, in good stories IGUANA
Rocks regularly seen in circle ICE
Scoff sandwiches left in box in aircraft JETLINER
So you can do it right, Nero fiddled INORDERTO
The responsibility of those crushed completely DOWNTOTHEGROUND
Whip is not a thing you can hear KNOUT
Wild as a murderer in escape heading north MANIACAL