The Times - Cryptic - Sunday Times Cryptic 3978 - August 18, 2002

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A few words omitted when sporting play resumes? LINEOUT
A pound the military accepted for getting measure of land ACREAGE
Arrive at a race in a flurry ATTAIN
Barking at rodent big cat caught LATRATION
Brazil, for instance, source of pigment DYEWOOD
Breakwater, to hold it back? RESTRAIN
Can't drop off? Funny - Simon and I can! INSOMNIAC
Corruption results when the Frenchman joins the mob GANGRENE
Discoloration from tar? Cut it out! ABSTAIN
Drifting off, mid-ocean, no longer bearing east NOMADIC
Dropping round, doctor lent video to youth-leader? Without question! EVIDENTLY
Effect this professional man produced ENGINEER
Former leading etcher Whistler displaced ERSTWHILE
Gorge, with cheese CHEDDAR
Has pulling power - deploying odd legs, for example SLEDGEDOG
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Hawk, non-flier PEDDLE
I admitted this Native American could be from Papeete TAHITAN
Identification of magenta weave NAMETAG
Look briefly and fly off GLANCE
Mad artist battered playwright DRAMATIST
Not a sure-footed dog? LURCHER
One Scottish warning rejected inside this plant ANEMONE
One wicket? Nonetheless, disallow! NEGATE
Quip in kindly fashion? With sarcasm! PUNGENTLY
Rancour shown by ailing swan of Avon? ILLWILL
Sense new growth, making use of this faculty? TASTEBUD
Severe rain can do damage DRACONIAN
Snapper taken from a river by expert ARBITER
Straits in which such creative types may find themselves ARTISTS
What a driver needs - the green light LICENCE