The Times - Cryptic - Sunday Times Cryptic 4318 - March 1, 2009

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A condition of privation NEED
A little bit superior to a Spanish dance JOTA
An alternative route on which Tom returns MOTORWAY
Beetle put mark on tar SCARAB
Carbolic acid? Phone around to get litre PHENOL
Cracks lad makes, reportedly, getting lift from ship BREECHESBUOY
Drunken orgy mid-morning, with everyone on the jetty GROYNE
First cosmonaut about to detect what could be the moon? CRESCENT
Fish ought, we hear, to be in this shelter? Unlikely! CARPORT
Frenchman taking brother to college BRETON
Gets to dine out? Took in food! INGESTED
It's sweet, being on target! BULLSEYE
It's the state of being open made tin sour CANDOUR
Locked up, of course DESSERT
Lozenge spat out by sick earl? PASTILLE
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Manage a turn in light aircraft of this type RUNABOUT
One promise nearly everyone makes AVOWAL
Parrots leading expert chose to train ECHOES
Part of the horse droops? WITHERS
Plump for fish close to hand CHUBBY
Relative density of dog with herdsman DROVER
Rodents steal in, bearing disease-causing bacteria MICROBES
Row about stray dog TERRIER
Snake needing water rests initially in dark seaweed BLADDERWRACK
Sticks to planting lettuce around this place COHERES
Still time on Sunday for them to take place? EVENTS
This bean could make an intoxicant ABSINTHE
Unbalanced doors have been taken off UNHINGED
Vehicle goes over large bird — a crested grebe CARGOOSE
Worked on book binding — also took first place TOOLED