The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 21973 - February 26, 2002

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... and so on, usually shortened ETCETERA
A little drink to keep the police sweet ACIDDROP
Appeal from opponents to come to terms with end of hostility ENTREATY
Aromatic tender duck left to cook REDOLENT
Blunder in regal PR can do damage DROPACLANGER
Call for dismissal in uproar OUTCRY
Change direction again and enter Rio in a storm REORIENT
Continue to appear someone rather stupid GOON
Contract to remove wrinkles DECREASE
Corsican, for example, seen to end up in river, endlessly ISLANDER
Cut off top voting returns POLL
Drinkers admitting greedy chap's given bungs SPIGOTS
Express in abstract English PRECISE
Expression heard in fights ... PHRASE
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Go and pelt rat TURNCOAT
Group of languages more oblique than Roman ITALIC
Introduction to explanation, initially in small capitals? SCILICET
It shows title to book written in Latin EXLIBRIS
Listened to drug report BANG
Mechanise co-driver? AUTOMATE
Original speech from evening out at reunion NATIVETONGUE
Soldier may be retiring PRIVATE
Spoil rising boy model DEFORM
Star and famous lover half falling out NOVA
Style of expression out of play originally in Latin, for example DEADLANGUAGE
Tense, approaching island without a flaw IMPERFECTION
Time-consuming business makes friend swear PALAVER
Twice caught on the hop - and quickly CHOPCHOP