The Times - Cryptic - Times Saturday 23210 - February 11, 2006

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A masculine sport without any English mix AMALGAM
Bread turned on end PITTA
Carol's phrase dismissing merry, gentle country? YEMEN
Colourful compounds come from this Irish way of speaking to an audience IRIDIUM
Cue intermittently missed in Scouse request for aid SOS
Do more preparation for painting than big girl's blouse, for example? OUTSIZE
Doctor who blotted his copybook? RORSCHACH
Drink containing your linctus SYRUP
Fashionable without function, cape's woolly quality INEXACTNESS
Forester may set out fixed-length tenancy TERMOFYEARS
Former bribe retracted, editor revealed EXPOSED
Hoped-for future relief with fat dissolving AFTERLIFE
It's also not half common NOR
It's time warm-up man finished, for the literary audience member THEATREGOER
Launch with new logo on and off getting withdrawn, say REBADGE
Low-fat main course, half-finished, completing Greek character's sustenance NUTRIMENT
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Mean to sequester debt records without respect IMPIOUSLY
Morning tea is very English in English glasses ELEVENSES
Mountain animal skinned for pelt LAM
North Yorkshire town favourite that's walked over by celebrities REDCARPET
Opera diminishes when gloomy note enters PETERGRIMES
Piece of driftwood figure TWO
Referee arrives to rein in champ ARBITER
Rough booze's no good after lifting class leader TUTOR
Seat on a flight, positioned tail-first STAIRLIFT
See girl come out less quietly, showing bad form MISSHAPEN
Simple enjoyment diminished in support for the arts EASEFUL
Stifling prison CHOKY
Temporary street work initially going as planned STOPGAP
Waste parts from the heart of buffaloes? OFFAL
Wind giving double trouble at the rear? TWINE
Young man with special quality making a comeback, subject to regular surges TIDAL