The Times - Cryptic May 27 2006 crossword clues & answers

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The Times - Cryptic May 27 2006

Clue	Answer
A person in club ignoring first person's cautionary signal	AMBER
A theory's so dry - the Oxford author should rewrite it	DOROTHYSAYERS
Abbey location lacking head but with a novice taken on inside	INTERNAL
Archdeacon enters cathedral regularly	EVENLY
Author may have to check this mathematical tour de force	PROOF
Awkward home - house full of women, in which one starts to expect nagging	INCONVENIENT
Biochemical compound in commercial drug given to a number	ADENINE
Birds in band heading back across hilltop	PARTRIDGES
Boss getting rid of half of those at the university?	STUD
Criminal I bid to reserve defence	ALIBI
Demanded by etiquette, and not only in Paris	DERIGUEUR
Depressing record - something we worry about as time goes by?	DISCOURAGING
Difficult situation, not half, before worker becomes docile	PLIANT
Drizzling brings liquid on to lake in season	SPRINKLING
Eg, nerd possibly who likes to be in drag?	GENDERBENDER
Enjoying success, like a mahout?	RIDINGHIGH
Fruit that's naturally sweet and wet in the morning?	HONEYDEWMELON
Get hold of lots of water, we hear	SEIZE
Godliness and good sense evident around court	SANCTITY
Huddle felt sensational? The reverse, putting many off	NESTLE
I am upset over ugly old women I found on a group of islands	MICRONESIA
I trail artist around, being a sort of sheep	ARGALI
I'm dirty when I'm working - or I'm clean possibly	COALMINER
In charge of property, I am bound to give an excessive appraisal	OVERESTIMATE
Items often stuffed with foam rubber or dull hair	MATTRESSES
Like playwright's house: well-maintained, and so quiet at the front	SOPHOCLEAN
Loud and unhappy fellow should be backing scheme	PLANGENT
Loud beast heartlessly eating man in wild area	FRONTIER
Male has no esprit when mixing - he's one of these?	MISANTHROPES
Man is to attempt an official record	REGISTRY
Most pleasing and comfortable home - but one gets cold inside it	NICEST
Most wounded - therefore take it easy	SOREST
Object when Henry's ditched Heather, feeling irritation	TINGLING
Off around the world perhaps and able to soak in the sun?	ABSORBENT
One could have worked out ogre list to a T	TERATOLOGIST
Painter splashing door with elan	LEONARDO
Particle or small stone taken from moving part of engine	PION
Personal ambitions may embarrass members of the team	OWNGOALS
Phony language that could come from old giant	DOGLATIN
Plant that's long and gold on top	ORACHE
Present when things finish in the auditorium	ATTENDING
Puzzles about what the alternative to cars might be	REBUSES
Recent festival that could give you a lift?	ASCENSIONDAY
Recorded in part of scripture, bow for flipping Pharaoh, for one	THEOCRAT
Religious outside broadcast behind schedule	OBLATE
Revolutionary nursery materials a female brought in	LAFAYETTE
Send warning to prisoner	CONSIGN
Sort date out for critical examination of product	ROADTEST
Stop something growing?	STEM
The case of the slow-moving cat	TORTOISESHELL
They spoil the match? That's one right reporters don't have	CORESPONDENTS
Things going well for agent? Inner fatigue is returning	PROSPERITY
Two of Oxford's leading characters I read about in the introductory sections	EXORDIA
Unjustified belief in education?	INTUITION
Very holy place vandalised by miscreant nun	INNERSANCTUM
What the relatively inefficient unloader will do, being lazy	SHIFTLESS
William the Conqueror perhaps bestriding the Hastings region as an invader	NORSEMAN
Worker getting motorway taken up for nothing or something essential?	IMPERATIVE
Written work produced by doctor no good - criticise hard	MONOGRAPH
Wrong to right	TORT
Accidental in tune man dashed off	UNMEANT
Affected by fits, universal among the elderly	AGUED
American hopeful to secure games for social match?	COMPEER
An artist from Catalonia embracing America and a southern Spanish region	ANDALUSIA
Beadle's legal opinion: it's injurious to assist a whale (3,3,2,1,3)	THELAWISAASS
Buff brass lump attached to oak?	NUTGALL
Buttonholes on opening?	DOORSTEPS
Cleo and Brenda eclipsing every other girl's name	LORNA
Cod's cousins turned up, displacing a thousand shellfish	SCALLOP
Had a meal in which starter is nothing like porridge	OATEN
I'm all in, collapsing at a threshold	LIMINAL
Identify person who's in bondage losing head over one who isn't	FREEMAN
Latin dance that's never hard to find around Brazilian city?	CARIOCA
Make unofficial attempt to stop lies broadcast through aerial	DISESTABLISH
Medicine men offering bogus half-solution	SHAMANS
Mesdames in diamonds allure the most stupid	DIMMEST
Natural as an empty gallery	ARTLESS
Not surprisingly, damage to metalwork is accepted without question	ONTRUST
Old language of French revolutionary greeting	MARATHI
Old-fashioned look adopted by traditionalist reduced sleaze	SQUALOR
Perhaps trumpeting has died for every fine space hero	DANDARE
Pipes outside greasy spoon on ancient support structures	SCAFFOLDINGS
Quiet anger about writer's fluid waste allowance	SHRINKAGE
Second best sheet newspaper cut for match supplement?	STOPPAGETIME
Some of Tanzania's a major retreat for them	MASAI
Southern European? Nothing new in that	SLOVENE
Thus puss in river is to dry out	DESICCATE
US general sort of has men containing resistance	SHERMAN

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