The Times - Cryptic - Sunday Times Cryptic 4402 - October 10, 2010

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Clues Answers
Around the circle,everyone can sew badly, making these excuses ALLOWANCES
Bearskins, it's said they favour? NUDISTS
Bird decapitated dog EAGLE
Birds are quiet, having no right being in groups of fruit trees POCHARDS
Branded stock EARMARKED
But will the hawthorn flower? MAYBLOSSOM
Changes of menu are good for a girl MAUREEN
Douglas chap, perhaps, seen to drag two poles to his island home? TOWNSMAN
Employing hocus-pocus, wise men about to join forces MAGICALLY
Fellow caught one short of a century, agitated HECTIC
Frank had a meal with applicant CANDIDATE
Girl decorating some cakes ANGELICA
Hurt of love rejected SORE
Intimate the artillery's heading north SNUG
Its points are named by boxers COMPASS
Lay down the line to be followed RULE
Clues Answers
Makes experimental attempts to produce literary work ESSAYS
Odd end, as internal piping leads to lines of pillars COLONNADES
Parking a pain in this plant! PLUMBAGO
Physician upset, in din injurious to health NOISOME
Planter, ailing, requires a sunhat TERAI
Point to a weapon in a war Herod abandoned ARROWHEAD
Primate on English isle a Neanderthal type? APEMAN
Rambler has just one shoe CREEPER
Record performance in Wimbledon match? SETDOWN
Risky enterprise involves this part of Scotland SKYE
Run one's eyes over unusually developed ladies and cause offence SCANDALISE
Shoots sitting ducks? SUCKERS
Show ring to which a salesman returns OPERA
There's a lot in gin for the traveller TRAMP
University student drop-out turned up the previous month ULTIMO
Whale of a weight, Manx cat carried GRAMPUS