The Times - Cryptic - Times Saturday 23030 - July 16, 2005

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A boast even at a bet? It's nothing but a story (5,3,2,1,4) THREEMENINABOAT
Canvas trimmer producing a roll of hemp REEFER
Dance to sound of genuine kind of old recorder REELTOREEL
Down below a bat flutters ATALOWEBB
Drink a lot of Best and start on Export TOPE
Enquire about strange rites in star-shaped figure ASTERISK
Good appreciation of music equipment GEAR
I conceal dope, his undoing? POISONEDCHALICE
I'll hear duo playing - one gives sound more volume LOUDHAILER
Intensely cold drink BITTER
Language that's grand and universal in general character TONGUE
Note, rambling rose is a prickly shrub GORSE
One behind another unique dossier SINGLEFILE
Pawn isn't taking bishop - completely messy game PAINTBALL
Perhaps Scott of the Arctic? That's wrong ARCHITECT
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Petty officer leading men is deserving of pity POOR
Prone to be telling fibs LYING
Provide with too much more than drink to work steadily OVERSUPPLY
Regularly trapped in Dieppe, our steerer is one for whom transportation is punishing DEPORTEE
S-sheep, not black, a provider of wool LLAMA
Science that's looking up? ASTRONOMY
Sort of radial with a single diagonal cut TYPE
Steep sided hill having not entirely spread BUTTE
Strike-breaker British want to get on BLACKLEG
Time to make a choice with skill where guests will sit at dinner TOPTABLE
What may give damage in a china shop? PRICETAG
What new driller for oil has got prosperous? WELLTODO
Where one might repair cutter for weed DOCK
Where this girl must end up? INGRID
Word used in Anglo-American for soil LOAM