The Times - Cryptic - Sunday Times Cryptic 3953 - February 24, 2002

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A few take a cereal from sheer greed AVARICE
A particular estimation RESPECT
A point will be seen in due course DESSERT
A situation involving questionable direction ATTHECROSSROADS
Bound to draw from a newspaper leader TAPED
Carpeting with cross laid in a cathedral AXMINSTER
Critically discriminating as tune is rendered NASUTE
Deter taxi misuse - hand over the offender EXTRADITE
Even given the apartment number FLATTEN
Everybody's into bonuses - they give people a lift BALLOONS
Fish photographer? SNAPPER
Having support, showed off STRUTTED
Nervous, though it's quite possibly perfect TENSE
Nurse and others put in custody again! REARREST
On the wrong track, as climbers could well be UPTHEPOLE
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Perversity in countesses not to be trifled with CONTENTIOUSNESS
Plainly most embarrassed about a minister set wrong REDDEST
Queues to go inside and drink LINESUP
Return is nil in the small department store DEPOSIT
Saucy lines, not ill-written INSOLENT
Sets up the right listening equipment REARS
Short article one's read on the French passage AISLE
Skinhead pursuing a country girl FRANCES
Some basset, terrier or other dog SETTER
Sound colonels, but nuts! ALMONDS
South American solicitor stayed till the end SATOUT
Such building material sets, and no mistake! SANDSTONE
The descendant of brave forebears PAPOOSE
The key is left also ISLAND
The shoot occupied by an object in the sky - a bird BUSTARD