The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 22236 - December 31, 2002

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Anticipate engine failure after warning FORESTALL
Beast inspected, say, in compound OXIDE
Decline to change one word INFLECT
Decline to take a role, and go to pieces FALLAPART
Domestic detailed to model for old dressmaker MODISTE
Finished exam accurately, say, for ecclesiastical post PASTORALLETTER
Flower with old label I corrected LOBELIA
Girl artist clutching carrier RHODA
Greatly taken with Open University in renamed development ENAMOURED
Half-inch tablet for clearing the ears PILFER
I broke up naff association of workers UNION
In which readers find touching letters helpful BRAILLE
It's good to be carried round the hilltop RIDGE
Married German woman's daughter in swindle FRAUD
Not bound to fail, so admitting nothing LOOSE
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One malt ordered for male supporter TELAMON
Overweight: adding a pound is disastrous FATAL
Priest anointed to confute Calvinist doctrine PREDESTINATION
Prior's authority PRECEDENT
Prototype of smutty magazine BLUEPRINT
Publish thin paper and take time off ISSUE
Punch churchwarden in the Tube BLOWPIPE
Refuse to have very young animals LITTER
Ruling in the club: no parking REGNANT
Short-lived fugitive TRANSIENT
Sister holding gold in the US treasury THESAURUS
Something created in Internet cafe, travelling up ARTEFACT
The coach found time passed quickly before the game TRANSPORT
Waste away without answer for optical problem PINKEYE
Working, I call round having pressing business IRONING