The Times - Cryptic - Times Saturday 23880 - April 5, 2008

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Admit no criminal is ordinary FESS
Affected disdain, having pagers turned off at the start SOURGRAPES
Basic salary ultimately accepted by junior UNDERLYING
Bears: stars visited by short flight SUSTAINS
Bird family has good tree in which female nests KINGFISHER
Casually dismiss fox's condition after hunt BRUSHOFF
Comfy place for chair, if coming back to stay permanently FIRESIDE
Cunningly adapts iris to make a lily ASPIDISTRA
Deliveries in wrong place around new town WIDNES
Flood being over, put shovel down WOLF
Fruit half-eaten by pet seal CACHET
Game bird's top in hamper, above everything BASKETBALL
Head turns to talk - a child might catch it BEANBAG
I left practice heavily criticised, as Bottom was TRANSLATED
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In speech, condescend to invader once DANE
Like a poet about to forget lines ASITWERE
Muck out here; waits, keeping right under both ends of horse HEBRIDES
No exaggeration in stories about drink LITOTES
Nothing to hold a spike NAIL
One admitted to St John's Island, dropping maiden speech PATOIS
Put a little back into task, having such a bone CHORDATE
Ship travelling to an island to look round area? HISPANIOLA
Simple statement one's avoiding Lear? NONONSENSE
Stop and arrest a second missionary BARNABAS
Striker's first foul - no, I can't give penalty SANCTION
Transport awaits one with this kiss, spring bursting in BUSPASS
Want to stop being a dad? DESIRE
What may be afoot admits constant gossip SCANDAL