The Times - Cryptic May 02 2005 crossword clues & answers

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The Times - Cryptic May 02 2005

Clue	Answer
A well-bred fellow envoy	AGENT
A year inside squat obtaining sanctuary	ASYLUM
An easy task in dense fog? There's nothing to it!	DUCKSOUP
Avoid team that has upset favourites	SIDESTEP
Best clobber - one may drive in it	TOPGEAR
Cast, home-grown, in new movie	SHEDONEHIMWRONG
Char holding top of soft detergent	CLEANSER
Displaced persons, last to receive an answer	RESPONSE
Extremely debatable - intended to make a challenge	DEFIANCE
Further loan	ADVANCE
Game, extremely tight after opener's dismissed	LOTTO
Grow rapidly in Greek character's hot apartment	MUSHROOM
Huge mines exploded around me	IMMENSE
Idiots to be brought before sheriff, initially, or judge	ASSESSOR
Job centre - husband must go in	CHORE
Joins golf course	LINKS
Knife left in various places	SCALPEL
Knight having no chance to find weapon	LANCE
Land feeling depressed	TOUCHDOWN
Learning about one in department	LOIRE
Mishandle wages completely	SCREWUP
Mysterious man, holding up boozer, is after key	ESOTERIC
Note villain's accent	BROGUE
Poem about Cornish resort village, written by the girl (3,3,2,2,5)	THEEVEOFSTAGNES
Put horse through awfully cruel run - a hunting animal	LURCHER
Sign, please, in leader's absence	RATIFY
Society member, independent male when working	FREEMASON
Swank cabaret cancelled	SHOWOFF
Told stories recalled about volunteers, soldiers given a special task	DETAIL
Uncertain what to do, with income less than outlay?	ATALOSS
A university is into creating team spirit in profusion	ABOUNDING
Almost silent, as author	DUMAS
Angelo personally imprisoned these illicit lovers	ELOPERS
As pastime, lively dance was taken up	JIGSAW
At meat counter, find horse, in great joy	DELIGHT
Bells installed here initially had a value	HAWORTH
Bet girl was bowled over by him	GILBERT
Bet it's a cell	ACCUMULATOR
Body at first treated roughly	TORSO
Branch line car-sharers rejected	LOOP
Cat risked disaster, in a small way	SIDETRACK
Crossing line, movement of sea is a sign to the Spanish	TILDE
Diagonally opposite, food supplier brings in basic food	CATERCORNER
Don't go for the hymn	ABIDEWITHME
Drama in general with woman briefly told to carry on filming	ANTONYANDCLEOPATRA
Exotic Sudanese entertainer	DANSEUSE
Extra cover initially dispensed with, out of habit	ADDITION
Family stopping disturbance short, that's loud and clear	CLARION
For game, you may need five sticks	CLUBS
Foreign characters' price-fixing not right for wine	MUSCATEL
Go on stage, perhaps, having a piece ready	RIDESHOTGUN
I state without hesitation tank commander is an islander	IRISHMAN
In France, respected chief of agriculture	CERES
Information given by article going into loaves - bloomers	GENTIANS
Italian's short note to apply for benefit	SIGNON
John, for example - British painter, erasing one stroke of pen	BAPTIST
Keep moving powerfully, being incisive person	SURGEON
Largest human criminal: the charge?	MANSLAUGHTER
Maine's not bad, as a state	MINNESOTA
Maybe saw burglar's haul handed back	TOOL
Most suitable area, well-endowed	ABLEST
Notice cold Italian wind rising from the sea	ADRIATIC
Novel to be so finely-dressed? Piece of ridicule to swallow, for one (2,4,1,11)	TOKILLAMOCKINGBIRD
Offender against church, murderer is to be strung up when doctor intervenes	SIMONIAC
One proverbially upset when separated, keeping place by city	APPLECART
One's equal in arms: a description of Achilles in Homer	GREEKCROSS
Original group I located by exact town area	URBANDISTRICT
Out of date to get honour, that's standard	OLDGLORY
Outing Jack's relation	JAUNT
Picking up piece of mail that's left out, soldier needing a head cover	AIGRETTE
Please don't die - oh no, witchcraft!	OBEAH
Promising doctor is so responsive to calls at night?	UPANDCOMING
Pupil adores translation being made more accessible	POPULARISED
Push finger in 'er nose? There's no expression for that	POKERFACE
Quaker admits a church sacrament	PENANCE
Run fast in series of lucky wins	STREAK
Short period assembling sheaves is fascinating	SPELLBINDING
Stomach battle in which king goes for knight	INNERMAN
Style of suit that may stick in the throat	HERRINGBONE
Superior companion? The most inferior	LAKEONTARIO
Support not reducing cast of Pyramus and Thisbe?	RETAININGWALL
Sweetly making up and marrying, taking Strong for middle name	CONFECTING
The claret circulating	BLOODSTREAM
Time to imitate a duck? Nonsense!	TWADDLE
Tree for first woman? It was disastrous, for openers	PANDORASBOX
Tribesman's singular bit of nerve	SAXON
Two heads better than one for this? An indefensible belief	DOUBLETHINK
Unnerved, gave evidence of having screw loose?	RATTLED
Was like a star - disrobing finally dropped wrappers	GLITTERED
What Harold did, we hear, in Highland town	FORTWILLIAM

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