The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 23035 - July 22, 2005

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A pair getting centuries, Essex's first runs, one caught driving culpably TWOCCER
Careless end to parade without opening of kit for inspection LOOKSEE
Document order given to hairdresser? PERMIT
Dog's tongue touching me ENGLISHSETTER
Dredge up war novel SCOOP
Drink found by smuggler in seconds RUNNERSUP
Feeble elements of PR retracted in misrepresentation DECREPIT
Game of chess, say, overwhelms board leaders MUSICALCHAIRS
Heard composer's fragment of music, part of a cycle HANDLEBAR
Hellish temperature Isaac Newton suffered SATANIC
Here I must appear in another case, not simple one, say COMPLEXNUMBER
Hit hard in scrap THRASH
In glass, one's dry painting gets very little wear on the exterior MARTINI
In grate etc I hammered a coffin nail CIGARETTE
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Like over the moon when master quits? That's foolish IDIOTIC
Mendelssohn wrote this piece finally on time, in a month OCTET
Native worked on motorway in the country VIETNAM
One can't draw very well with it ASTHMA
Painter in back of boat, way down low ERNST
Post-shock syndrome, out of the blue? SONICBOOM
Rare animal in overturned useless cage in Berlin SPANDAU
Really go off Animal Farm, for example ALLEGORY
Scrap book's cut-out article ANNUL
Sign of trouble picking subject for anthem REDFLAG
Size of book needing unspecified amounts cut in a year TWELVEMO
The A One from Paris? PAREXCELLENCE
What colleagues ideally want to treat worm in wood TEAMWORK
Whinger very taken by sailing vessel KVETCH