The Times - Cryptic May 30 2003 crossword clues & answers

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The Times - Cryptic May 30 2003

Clue	Answer
Apt criterion for the most healthy	FITTEST
Bird led to break through shell	SHELDUCK
Box? He did a far, far better thing	CARTON
Builder's aid marketed outside snack bar in Gateshead	SCAFFOLDING
Champion on horseback with influence	UPHOLD
Consider introducing new name for flavouring	FENNEL
Dried out thus in City district, wearing old hat	DESICCATED
Erase recent broadcast primarily about new rite	OBLITERATE
Former pilot's staggering feat	EXPLOIT
Glides along smoothly and wins races	SWEEPSTAKES
How the Lower House functions, being without equal	PEERLESSLY
Irritable about note in Bible, a distortion	TRAVESTY
It contributed to Cleopatra's passing	ASP
Like some peaks an English novelist improved on	SNOWCAPPED
May come to be Chatham? Pitt can't wait!	CHAMPATTHEBIT
Mutt left out of RAF unit's encounter	DOGFIGHT
Neat Italian fellow admitted it produces rust	OXIDANT
Nothing in a closed vehicle as source of music	OCARINA
Old, good English painter	OPIE
One bound breaking woman's back - need to revive	REFRESH
One who hops overseas to get game?	FRENCHCRICKET
Possible cause of trouble on vessel crossing river?	STAYSAIL
Reportedly Miss Peachum's old college	POLY
Scattered boxes at end of lane	SPARSE
Show one's hand in decision on policy?	VOTE
Sibelius's first characteristic passage	STRAIT
Spotted creature - one that stings, some say	CHEETAH
Trendy-sounding place to stay	INN
Try and eat stew, but rabbit on endlessly	YATTER
Vehicle appears to move along the ground	TAXI
A large amount of pressure to protect one key family of owls	STRIGES
A rescuer of animals finally failing to get water-buffalo	ANOA
Crown of leaves is edging for South Australian shrub	COPROSMA
Early arrival in US destroyed English empire	PREEMIE
English poke fun at old oath	ECOD
Fish-eater finding tons unprocessed left in net	OTTERTRAWL
Former reputation is mostly ruined	LOS
Girl is able to turn up in bright orange-red	NACARAT
Half Lincolnshire resort wants grand surfboard stabiliser	SKEGG
Horse manoeuvre exercises French marquis	PESADE
King's rook that is key, taking second pawn that is left in chess game	KRIEGSPIEL
Large vessel made to hold a spirit from the East	ARAK
Lien, or term regularly affecting something in law	INREM
Like a hedgehog in English porcelain, hollow Tiggywinkle?	ECHINATE
Look for local supply of high energy while walking	GORP
Old gunwale possibly left beside French river	PORTOISE
Once called to work in theatre, an elevated position on board	HIGHTOP
Poisonous plant fellow doctor brought to market-place	MANDRAGORA
Provide food to ball given by Arab, starting with wine and communal grub	TENTCATERPILLAR
Question a Western rule about Sufi singer	QAWWAL
Scots Liberal leads every answer	LALLANS
Some metamorphic rock is so good since it is well-mixed	GNEISSITIC
Underclothes initially tailored with a concealed communication device	SMALLSAT
Vitamin B six once included among broader minerals	ADERMIN
We commuted with him and he is wanting to get home to Germany	HEIMWEH
Wessex's leader travelling to a meeting - this one?	WITENAGEMOT
What one puts on white rolls for dinner-party?	NAPKINRINGS
What secures rope on ship, getting you away soundly?	EUPHROE
When dancing, each toe led truly (with one free to go the other way)	ELEUTHERODACTYL
Whiskey for a gypsy gentleman	RYE

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