The Times - Cryptic - Sunday Times Cryptic 3979 - August 25, 2002

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A spike in writings for friendship MATINESS
Act with Richard - not hard, in Greek dialect DORIC
Antelope with a bone in the middle ORIBI
Back total company against trouble for sugar MUSCOVADO
Book of aphorisms - part of Koran, about time SUTRA
Bury supplication for questioning INTERROGATION
Creature embraced by amateurs as survivors LEFTOVERS
Elevation for universal parking rise UPLIFT
Factory work which puts service before putting on play MASSPRODUCING
Fairy game with nothing up for frightful spirit HOBGOBLIN
Hot periods for those who count in former empire INDIANSUMMERS
Hothouse pest has food backed by universal gravity MEALYBUG
Hour with one roll behind in backing extreme sceptic NIHILIST
King of Arms, and not Christian name NORROY
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Link up again concerning the match RETIE
One caught after a piece of cricket for Scandinavian RUNIC
Part of line where people unusually halt for cheese EMMENTHAL
Possibly one record exists before East has to use new words NEOLOGISE
Region I can belong to IONIC
Replied and coupled again REJOINED
Right to practise it is about right DROIT
Singer against changing lot CONTRALTO
Soldier punishing clan, for the Queen LANCER
Take edge of one state for countercharge RECRIMINATION
The proposer says the motion ran differently NOMINATOR
Waste intelligence on a female WITHER
Weight spoken about one for barber TONSORIAL
Where they have a song in the middle of dinner NAIRN