The Times - Cryptic - Sunday Times Cryptic 3992 - November 24, 2002

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Action required about bed? Cut down to size! DEBUNKED
Beneath ramshackle pier spot this stone PERIDOT
Data safe? Is doctor to give us this ill-smelling remedy? ASSAFETIDA
Five hundred who turned out to occupy it ? DHOW
Fruit in a crate - note there is nothing missing NECTARINE
Game old boy captured by the mob GOBANG
Good idea, ordering earliest vintages in a wine bar BRAINWAVE
Gun-toting beast GNU
I'm to intercede without delay IMMEDIATE
It's fragrance may be identified mile off, in Egypt? ELEMI
Keen to gambol by the sea and in the shallows KNEEDEEP
Letter from Mid-West - top secret ESS
Mercenary horse-breaker, reportedly FILIBUSTER
Middle East port area ACRE
One way to become tenant of pleasant relative NIECE
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Outstaying underworld runner STYGIAN
Pale-faced fool - could get sunburned this time of year! AUGUST
Poor actor urged to get groovy! CORRUGATED
Pulpit used in Cambodia AMBO
Put in a nutshell for lunate space travelling ENCAPSULATE
Quietly humorous about Barnaby getting the donkey-work DRUDGERY
Sabrina, of UK, relocated here? BURKINAFASO
Sage stuffing for nourishing dish RISHI
Several people taking the plunge DIVERS
This cutting article corroborates what you say BACKSWORD
This time's one I don't fancy NOONTIDE
Time not being there includes time in giving it up ABSTINENCE
To follow up one who was awaited GODOT
Wise men record vehicle used by painters MAGILP
Wooden smile? BEAM