The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 22949 - April 13, 2005

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Clues Answers
Airline agree to drop letters regularly in French department ARIEGE
Bird left animal shelter LARK
Came to fine after swallowing fish bones METACARPI
Drivel, you rightly infer, starts as writer's out-of-date material PAPYRI
I pierced this rough fellow in the neck ISTHMIAN
Idiocy of a Conservative forsaking urban crime? ASININITY
Inclined to put away unsavoury items? SWEETTOOTHED
It might accommodate Arab firm STABLE
Like virgin reserves right to leave free? UNTAPPED
Literary bird that almost never flies THERAVEN
Loudly celebrate creator of Playboy character SYNGE
Maid said, for example, to be shy? EYERHYME
Make detailed speech, getting exile worried on island EXPATIATE
Method of colouring clothes sailor brought from east BATIK
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Mock Jack, cross falling from goat JIBE
Old interrogator raised a barrier with force TORQUEMADA
Old king whose laws protect what uniform stands for LOUIS
Pledge total information blackout SECURITYBLANKET
Pole, light-headed with malt, pops out LAMPPOST
Populist government that's sensible to introduce in waves GESTUREPOLITICS
Satisfied with a return treat for magnetic effect ASSUAGED
Shrub flourishing is in teapot POINSETTIA
Slashes, therefore one hides under cover SOLIDI
Sound from pipes in S-bend heard SKIRL
Spot girl bringing instrument ZITHER
Sun, maybe, glowing over peak REDTOP
University developed by one across about to finish globally UBIQUITOUSLY
Works lacking a certain character LIPOGRAMS