The Times - Cryptic May 31 2004 crossword clues & answers

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The Times - Cryptic May 31 2004

Clue	Answer
About to get a dog? Come again?	RECUR
Adoring cry as girl finishes good book	HOSANNA
After the start, embroidery work gets larger	AMPLER
Bad start in heroic role	TRISTAN
Banana so peremptorily selected?	OUTOFHAND
Butler's work requires method universally followed (3,3,2,3,5)	THEWAYOFALLFLESH
Charming women try to leave city	COVEN
Confronted with bill, having dined out	FACED
Corps abandons ship for plane	FIGHTER
Craving to possess new court in unspoiled countryside	GREENWOOD
Criminal gang's court hearing having different ending	TRIAD
Dealing with people with computer devices? That's novel	OFMICEANDMEN
Disparage foreign character, attacked by bull and tossed up	DEROGATE
Duke screaming for execution - not taken aback?	ELLINGTON
Failing to keep one's terms, making break for beach to study text	BREACHOFCONTRACT
Firm determination succeeded, making tracks through river	STEELINESS
Free chicken cooked for 18	NECKERCHIEF
From old college, get leave	OMIT
General arrangement of the lines at Waterloo, say	ORDEROFBATTLE
Getting together in faith, start to suspect mercy isn't free	SYNCRETISM
Go off to employ a second cook	ROAST
Head silk making gang get record shortly	BANDANNA
Huge limo for winner of this?	OSCAR
Hurry up, having to make appearance with instrument	LOOKSHARP
In court, pieces translated hostile to union	EUROSCEPTIC
Its job is lightly discharged	ARCLAMP
Loan necessary to be recognised?	ADVANCE
Man of pride in title, a match for Elizabeth	DARCY
Monster chapter takes man a very long time	CHIMERA
No perks here, but graduate thus has to carry on	BASICWAGE
Not my responsibility, getting porter round in foreign port	ALICANTE
Old trail led here from shore: go now!	OREGON
One aiming to give girl a lovely double row of pearls?	DENTALSURGEON
One up early for jolly occasion	LARK
Pages from singer make poetry	LEAVESOFGRASS
Part of cell transmitting from heart of German state	AXON
Pen's lowered on soft cloth	SWANSDOWN
Pin down criminal, but avoid being committed	SITONTHEFENCE
Policeman lets leading doctor go free	UNTIE
Precise cut through sound piece	BISECTION
Rudely silence call for passenger safety	BELTUP
Sailor heading for old part of lighthouse that's strangely elusive	JACKOLANTERN
Saint is excellent unarmed fighter	AIDAN
Sex is banal, I found in resort	AIXLESBAINS
Should it be rued by each drunk?	DEBAUCHERY
Some humour got right: about time to be deflated	PUNCTURED
Some paintwork divided up thus?	INTWO
Splendid book one chap picked up in the country	NAMIBIA
Story about origin of magic tree	LIME
Survive a series of partners, and support unlikely pet mammal?	CARRYONESBAT
Tasteless items of equipment given to school	KITSCH
The heat off, he's our new senior representative	FATHEROFTHEHOUSE
Those not moved to excellence are genuine	HONESTTOGOODNESS
Time I entered match is not significant	TRIVIAL
To hold on grabbing bit of foot is decisive	CLINCHING
Tranquillity all around, perhaps, suited this stroll	MOONWALK
Unwieldy place on Nile	ELEPHANTINE
Weakness of a cold fish, securing woman	ACHILLESHEEL
What goes into whisky, claret, or ale	BARLEYWINE
With mushy peas, yearn to take up last of the sauce	ESPAGNOLE
A European said to be so bitter?	ACERB
Absurdly complex to find birds on barren land to west	HEATHROBINSON
Ageing nurse once given Eastern perfume	SENESCENT
Booty left on board in wet blanket	SPOILSPORT
Compelled to retreat? Hard cheese!	EDAM
Complain, whether there's good in it or not	WHINGE
Condiment Arab possibly put on most of raw food	HORSERADISH
Discharge soldiers after action? It's a racket	BATTLEDORE
Eat greedily, being Edgar Allan's bird	RAVEN
Fervently believed explosive material about creative works	HEARTFELT
German king just about controlled Italian port	OTRANTO
Judge famous poem about islands, hundreds of them	FIJI
Movement in Swan Lake is almost finished	PAS
Not bound to be lavish	FREE
Notoriously rejected work inside in overbearing way	ARROGANTLY
One associated with daily events in the nursery?	SOLOMONGRUNDY
One spells out world fair riots with difficulty	EXPOSITOR
Oral test some'll put together for anniversary	TRIENNIAL
Play Joplin number in new city dome	TRAGICOMEDY
Quiet friend of Pooh dipping into mother's foodstuff	MUSHROOM
Record son's snatched off fire	INGLE
Result that disappoints regularly on field	NIL
Satire of so-called Ancient Mariner to receive booster	LAMPOON
Scene that's conveyed by Vaughan Williams, initially	VIEW
Some tigers at zoo not genuine	ERSATZ
Supplement old masters originally added to English course	EPSOM
Way to stop lie, etc, wrongly conveyed by ESP	TELEPATHIC
Word books in French not allowed in Berlin	VERBOTEN

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