The Times - Cryptic May 23 2001 crossword clues & answers

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The Times - Cryptic May 23 2001

Clue	Answer
Aggressive female parrot	AMAZON
Apart from edges, is now linen, over which it's always white	SNOWLINE
Arrangement of bars on Fourth of July - not open	CAGEY
As a rule, it's not dependent on manpower	MATRIARCHY
Audibly disapprove of monarch's strict regulations	BOOK
Blow up it as ordered, needing 14 inflated	BOMBASTIC
Books left one bitter, twisted	LIBRETTI
Contract arrived at by players rather than clubs, for example	NOTRUMP
Exotic type of garland - article mostly found in a certain port	LEITH
Fellow on island freed by a castaway, finally	MANFRIDAY
Force opponents at bridge repeatedly to produce king	RAMESES
How to score extremely high	ALTISSIMO
It allows us to make an entrance after the opening number	COMBINATIONLOCK
Last guy	STAY
Leaves immediately when it's time to retire	LIGHTSOUT
Name a fungus that's set back nut-tree	PECAN
Name schoolboy embracing wife of a famous mathematician	NEWTONIAN
Old-fashioned second eleven	STEAM
One state's courts subsuming fifty others	AUSTRIA
One's required to get some food from person who frees prisoners	CANOPENER
Police sergeant the equal of gunman?	LEWIS
Religious leader and scholar needing his hair restyled	MAHARISHI
Right to escape all military coups in new state?	POLITICALASYLUM
Score in rugby game, not in test	TRYOUT
Seas are concealed by 'aze, we hear, in African port	ACCRA
Second highest position, say	SPEAK
Singularly versatile player	ONEMANBAND
They limit goals in a backward area	THESTICKS
Unknown river in renamed African area	ZAIRE
Yellow material sometimes found in flowers	SULPHUR

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