The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 21699 - April 11, 2001

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A sweet dish is served up - a sponge LOOFA
Bit in the middle of loaf removed? It's a nail! BRAD
Caring type, 'Contrary Mary', with name for being a gardener NURSERYMAN
Dispatch note DEATHWARRANT
Endlessly tiresome person will be found in pub - that's natural INBORN
Evil German - no man for one to celebrate? SINGER
Fire rifle SACK
Girl from the US lacking a male ERICA
Heartless lord keeping in a lady LINDA
Is one warm in one's jacket? An awkward situation HOTPOTATO
It's a wrongful act to take last bit of the cake! TORTE
Joined up after action in theatre? STITCHED
Journalist about to have a drink REPORTER
King has to get the hang of being without knight LEAR
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Monk to miss having a day in the pub BLACKFRIAR
Mug, perhaps first to applaud rubbish CLAPTRAP
Our Earth - meant to change, putting off a female with ecological concerns? MOTHERNATURE
Overall positions which are interchangeable in scripture FIRSTANDLAST
Pontificate about strike and be extravagant SPLASHOUT
Relation's friend is an object of ridicule AUNTSALLY
Rover shows Rex extreme displeasure RANGER
Royal personage in Berlin -carpet put out PRINCEALBERT
Something extra mounted to conceal chemical SULPHIDE
State army occupying university hospital UTAH
Study item on the menu in shopping mall, say CONCOURSE
Teasing exercise that might add to someone's stature? LEGPULLING
Took one's position and collapsed FELLIN
Where mourning birds gathered to make protest ROUNDROBIN