The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 22978 - May 17, 2005

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A club one's used for defence ABATIS
Bungling writer thrown over in the end INEPT
Capability to cook to a rich colour? BROWN
Current gibe gets new worker up in arms INDIGNANT
Doughty porter furious about ending of favour STOUTHEARTED
Empty pub outside a European capital INANE
Female bird? Not necessarily FOWL
Fine US instrumentalist entertaining a fellow musician FLAUTIST
Fix a drink, initially declining a different one PINACOLADA
Form I filled in during search on northern river QUESTIONNAIRE
From Swedish territory, books in protective sleeve GOTLAND
How one that's obtuse may move, in a stiff way? ANGULARLY
Improper, not like a professor of Anglo-Saxon TOLKIEN
Lawmaker's tipple referred to in speech MEDE
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Liar denied island's fruit ANANAS
Losers may meet theirs where trains come and go WATERLOO
Lovely old piece describing Shelley's traveller's land ANTIQUE
Medicinal plant hill folk mostly cultivate TORMENTIL
Most of county displayed a liking, once, for Dali SURREALIST
Nick is more sophisticated COOLER
Passionate first book upset practically everyone EMOTIONAL
Quickly asleep abroad, don't want to be in the dark OUTLIKEALIGHT
Refuse to see daughter with dependency? DROSS
Rotten area deranged extremists governed ADDLED
Seaman starts to impugn verdict in recent case ABLATIVE
Second bed delivered undamaged SCOTFREE
Suburbanite's spoken dismissal of pork-pie retailer? OUTLIER
Unexpansive, like all but the first word in this clue MONOSYLLABIC