The Guardian - Cryptic crossword May 05 2003 crossword clues & answers

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The Guardian - Cryptic crossword May 05 2003

Clue	Answer
A permit carried by the runner	ATHLETE
A poser before a nurse	PRETENDER
A relation calling for a certain amount of cooperation	RATIO
Behind a measure the sovereign's taken	AFTER
Blows on the feet	SOCKS
Bread scattered among the leftovers for a bird	REDBREAST
Dismiss ministers as a sign of contrition	SACKCLOTH
Drags up the turf	SWARD
Entertainment managers find the really naughty child is rare, surprisingly	IMPRESARI
Excellent publicity arranged by one of the family	GRANDAD
Exemplary colours?	STANDARDS
Firm with a woman in order to beat a problem	CONUNDRUM
For coppers in a small band, it's rough	RASPING
Get Burlington House a good oil-supplier	COPRA
Gets the dog and looks around	SECURES
Hesitate to make modest cut	DEMUR
Inane make-up for a girl	ANNIE
Many love tea and coffee	MOCHA
Military personnel accompanying the first lady magistrate	REEVE
Not decent maybe, but quite happy	CONTENTED
Petition the Conservative leader to go on	CRAVE
Pledge to provide a home with listening equipment initially	EARNEST
Refuge making no charge - a questionable arrangement	ANCHORAGE
Sauce bottle	NERVE
The casual worker has to move fast!	SCAMPER
The last month the Left are to speak out	DECLARE
Times in a cathedral for carpeting	AXMINSTER
To throw money around carelessly proves to have a limit	OVERSPEND
Track supervision	DIRECTION
Training a vine, note, is simplicity itself	NAIVETE
Work in the Channel Islands producing plants	CACTI
Writing about some furniture restorer	REDRESSER

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