The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 23343 - July 17, 2006

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Clues Answers
A line in function leads to solution SALINE
Accompanied piece finally orchestrated? About time ESCORTED
Army chap adopting new mathematician's line TANGENT
Bird lives in hide SISKIN
Body in plant representing universal love? OVULE
Colleague run in on pitch? How untimely INOPPORTUNE
Copper hit out concerning divination PROPHETIC
Current position from which banks remain equally distanced MIDSTREAM
Dance that was enough for Newman? ONESTEP
Disproof concerning work as head servant, say REBUTTAL
Expression of disapproval in bachelor circles BOO
Get lost and howl, short of energy SCRAM
Girl starts to put potion in drink - it bears fruit ROSEAPPLE
Grassy area providing shelter, by the sound of it LEA
Heavy metal thus upset parent, one admitted OSMIUM
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Hold forth about right to shoot SPROUT
Horse carries man taking food to wealthy chanteuse MARLENEDIETRICH
Not quite the traveller's type ROMAN
Nothing in one's subject is like some atoms ISOTOPIC
Old church record taking precedence for a long time EPOCH
Old-fashioned writer gets girl to wash up MEDIEVAL
One's injured, having landed on hard stone artefact NEOLITH
Overwhelmed by drink, wife stole powerful vessel TOWBOAT
Press agent's son allowed to go round behind bar PUBLICIST
Quite a paper - now and then! SOMETIMES
Reckless person wrongly spared in odd ode DESPERADO
States measure up bits of bone for souvenirs MEMORABILIA
Ultimately victorious players may let it off STEAM
Unlike a lexicographer, not knowing what to say (2,1,4,3,5) ATALOSSFORWORDS
Woodland plant with neat edge OXLIP