The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 22732 - August 2, 2004

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A shaped block - of sandalwood? SHOETREE
Absent players chucked out CASTAWAY
Bear of suspicious nature disheartened, showing unsociability STANDOFFISHNESS
Bodoni's sort, on the surface TYPEFACE
Carefully inspect patient CASE
Dairy product created the wrong way EDAM
Dark blue GLOOMY
Date that is timeless IDES
Divine stewed prunes, with hesitant expression, are swallowed SUPERHUMAN
Drunk, and what did you say? Plenty! CUTANDCOMEAGAIN
For the auditor, degrades landed properties DEMESNES
Frequently put in a softener OFTEN
Get rid of gold, for instance - it's going to be melted down SCRAPMETAL
Greedy boy losing his head AVID
Holder, for example, wants good trophy EGGCUP
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In cafe, no beef, unfortunately: this, though? COFFEEBEAN
Jewish ascetic, not cold in heart ESSENE
Junior worker is sneaky UNDERHAND
Longs to dress a fool in baggy trousers PANTALOONS
Note about fringe subject THEME
Once liked to be inclined from the vertical LISTED
Person not fit for children to see ADULT
Religious rite in the form of cleansings, say ASPERGES
Satellite repeater ECHO
Smell reported in European river ODER
Soundly criticise wood in fashionable little shop BOUTIQUE
Support that helps artist match silk for reproduction MAHLSTICK
Tax paid on legal documents to impress office STAMPDUTY
The foreign land, one with a religious delusion THEOMANIA
Use hawser to haul ketch initially over ridge KEDGE