The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 21745 - June 4, 2001

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Clues Answers
A woman must expect to receive such treatment OBSTETRIC
Background for musical version of poem SETTING
Bar women's crew? It's a steadying force COUNTERWEIGHT
Be abusive to young women rising about noon SLANG
Cleaner used in bathroom also in the old days TOOTHPASTE
Cut back part of bush or tendril SHORTEN
Dandy place between Bromley and Old Ford, say BEAU
Devout Cockney crossing green with no attempt at concealment OVERTLY
Fellow goes over town giving a hand YARBOROUGH
Fly type relatively familiar in Britain? DADDYLONGLEGS
House in Kent area, or Oxford, perhaps SHOE
Husband abandons watch-making for study of chains OROLOGY
Kiss someone taking part in strike? SMACKER
Officers discover clues by printing unit ENSIGNS
Old book primarily on architectural moulding OVOLO
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Party at length? Anagrammatists can handle a thing like this (4,1,5,2,2) MAKEANIGHTOFIT
Plant western ruler found in a river WATERWEED
Power old president offered workers, it's plain PIKESTAFF
Public spectacle former partner mounted on river EXPO
RAF officers given wine to put in place POSIT
Rejecting dance, assume a sly look LEER
Relax with parents, at first, inside play area SANDPIT
Remedy involving single unit of radioactivity CURIE
Reportedly an amphibian with inferior terminal projections TOED
Sort of food that pigs initially eat in the wild SPAGHETTI
Square mostly disinclined to work in northern state PLAZA
The same simple song with the end changed DITTO
Unfortunate thing duckling has - one left in draught DOWNONONESLUCK
Wicked man visiting gallery GODLESS
Woman abridging part of chronicle ANNA