The Times - Cryptic - Times Saturday 22946 - April 9, 2005

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About to free up a Nobel Prize winner DIRAC
Arrive with a short female performer COMEDIAN
Artistic endeavour one deliberately doesn't make too much of LIMITEDEDITION
Certain to clinch contract? That's a plus POSITIVESIGN
Coat replaced even before run ENVELOPE
Covering up, doctor to probe injury - prod heartily! SOMBRERO
Dead quiet? Most not wanting a fuss SILENTMAJORITY
Due to strain, isn't one jumpy too? Not half TENSIONAL
Extremely pacy at end of fell running - it may mark a turning point PYLON
Force modern and ancient cities to join VIGOUR
Fruit, almost a pound once topped QUINCE
Further back, almost nobody sees the PM AFTERNOON
Girl getting cross over referee on the right wing ANNEXE
Initially tussled with italicised clues encountered in Times Two? TWICE
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Island where one missing flight disappeared MAURITIUS
It comes to nothing in parts of London LONGITUDE
Join compiler coming into some money CEMENT
Little animal, also, I caught hiding in shoe BANDICOOT
Men like monk's singing GREGORIAN
One of her best friends caught Lucrezia's heart CORGI
One's dying to give it up GHOST
Poem about soccer team in compound OXIDE
Possibly key English penned by early poet SKELETON
Pots of preserve picked up with cola I ordered MAJOLICA
Reportedly influenced by such material SUEDE
Rush back after school before end of idle chat SCHMOOZE
Very large bird in short extract from American magazine LIFESENTENCE
Young man, one beginning to learn PUPIL