The Times - Cryptic - Times Saturday 22187 - November 2, 2002

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Announcement of resignation making house bustle HOHUM
Applaud divinely transformed maiden for so long! CHEERIO
Around court, produces plants with bright flowers CACTUSES
Art of jazz TATUM
Certainly covered by legal document INDEED
End twelfth opera with variation that Prokofiev wrote PETERANDTHEWOLF
Fictional doctor from international medical group WHO
Fruit to put around a sort of cake TANGELO
Get scared if introduced to theatrical dame TERRIFY
How to transform coop into shop, for example HYPHENATE
Loud is not this FAINT
Material a hopeless person doesn't have EARTHLY
Morality play seen in theatre, very mannered EVERYMAN
Old soldier absorbed by subject of place names TOPONYMIC
Oriental concealing route? Well, sort of ARTESIAN
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Overactive publicist HYPER
Quality of good paper I found in many quarters NEWSINESS
Regard leading batsman as something remarkable EYEOPENER
Religious leader appears to chatter unceasingly RABBI
Saw British returning to base BOTTOM
Several score - important after loss of first wicket EIGHTY
So-called little women with a European noble's wife MARCHESA
Spaced-out little bounder - goodness! ROOMY
Spar with energy at first, and liveliness ESPRIT
Spoil one's time, cheating DISHONEST
Spoil the navy's raid at sea, making for island in Atlantic MARTHASVINEYARD
Surfacing material I put on a nut-tree MACADAMIA
Three sheets in the wind, out of control? This can help PAPERWEIGHT
Tiny chap of limited age TIM
Where darts player aims to finish quickly ATTHEDOUBLE