The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 22553 - January 6, 2004

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Bachelor girl is first with current excuse ALIBI
Better ad-lib if note written up is missing IMPROVE
Calm primate, checking pulse APPEASE
Change fundamentally, seeing gradual development in progress REVOLUTIONISE
Consume it in Cornish resort, deriving supreme happiness BEATITUDE
Convinced a chap about each being individually tailored MADETOMEASURE
Courts involved in repatriation ATRIA
Differ in opinion, writing dreadful note about depression DISAGREE
Dilemma as one leaves new farm shop QUANDARY
Drug we're often exhorted to keep off GRASS
Emphatically, we lovers sue for reconciliation OURSELVES
Entomb French king in retreat upcountry INTERIOR
How to organise characters on the staff? NOTATE
Leaves, having secured duck in game QUOITS
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Odds on fellows around City area being an example SPECIMEN
Old woman beginning to flourish on American soil FUSSPOT
Only mass, note, is turning into a formal observance SOLEMNISATION
Powerful figures I associated with business deficit COLOSSI
Print-out sure provides firm evidence PROOFPOSITIVE
Publication extremists used to identify fabric ORGANZA
Reactionary parliament cut short with force DIEHARD
Real idiot masquerading as leader EDITORIAL
School doctor taken in and searched COMBED
Stockjobber putting his cards on the table? DEALER
Study at university with one whose game is worthless MUGUP
Touching down between flights? LANDING
Try endlessly to be of use in labour TRAVAIL
Work late, producing a sonata MOONLIGHT