The Times - Cryptic - Sunday Times Cryptic 4032 - August 31, 2003

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Affected by frantic annual rut UNNATURAL
After second time round, parking - as per instruction STOP
After smashing of the atom, entire globe has had to suffer its pollution ATMOSPHERE
Animal wisest to duck inside for fire protection ASBESTOS
Beginner seen to sink FOUNDER
Cat gets bird - another bird gets both TOMTIT
Charge of the French trapping young Philip in the tube FEEDPIPE
Compensate for not being on deposit OFFSET
Compilers going to the dogs SETTERS
Converse with mate on location OPPOSIVE
Don't be the first to drop the lids OUTSTARE
Few, they say, get unduly excited initially, playing it? FUGUE
Fibre that after weaving, can be used in textiles IXTLE
Formerly in Greece, young men the last to be hip, perhaps EPHEBI
Gets inside with mate and peers around PERMEATES
Have a passion for fruit and tomatoes LOVEAPPLES
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Heading up a narrow passage to the right of the kidneys RENAL
Heated feeling - over-dressed in fur wrap FERVOUR
In the river, permitted to strike out DELETE
Lend uncle one piece PAWN
Less pea soup satisfies PLEASES
Near-wrecked flat and left after sunset NIGHTFALL
No truce organised - defeat them utterly! TROUNCE
Reportedly a banned poet BARD
Scientists finding what's putrefied in rubbish containers BOFFINS
Spruce up the vehicles TRAMS
The poetic yearn for surprise development, with romance initially spurned SUSPIRE
Trace exit - eccentric way to get out EXTRICATE
Traveller getting a share of the compensation REPARATION
Very special military combination RARE
With wrought steel, manages to make these instruments TELESCOPES
Writer with snub-nose grabs me, encountering resistance EMERSON