The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 22541 - December 22, 2003

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A Hilton invention is dropping a little honey, then a little lime, into wine punch SHANGRILA
A lawyer gets work without one slowly ADAGIO
Athenian left recipes to cook PERICLES
Awkward operator - one is requiring evidence APOSTERIORI
Drive back Naaman, say, when returning REPEL
Emergency procedure to make tree steady FIRSTAID
Essayist makes Italian banker extremely livid ARNOLD
French bread - I dropped piece in the kitchen PAN
Given bribe, lift off gallows Till Eulenspiegel, say FLIBBERTIGIBBET
In affair, needed protection as one of one's rights is taken away AMOUR
In Westminster, a bunch of conservative types OLDSCHOOL
Interrupted by amateur soldiers, court bristles SETAE
Keep a tugboat TOWER
Left taxi turned over in river flood DEBACLE
Made subtle changes by adding note to nice song FINETUNED
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Man holding weapon stole, perhaps GARMENT
Mark has trade around Slough SWAMP
Mark's an old fool? Not half! DOT
Not serious? Sleeps in sandals? FLIPFLOPS
One dancing in the wind TWISTER
One scuppers a ship DESTROYER
Organise party to have a fling THROW
Pear drink, big one manufactured in plant PIGEONBERRY
Related to a European bloodsucker at heart AGNATE
Soak: one with a type of wine in bed RETIRED
Terrible posture: thin chap's a very old man PITHECANTHROPUS
The most flashy individual abandoning university: isn't it naturally attractive? LODESTONE
The prescribed amount may have more added in, but not a sweetener DEXTROSE
What drug pusher may claim for operatic heroine ISOLDE
Where archaeologist might be hiding fragment is unbecoming INFRADIG