The Times - Cryptic May 31 2003 crossword clues & answers

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The Times - Cryptic May 31 2003

Clue	Answer
A decline reversed for Liszt	ABBE
Advice about extremely unusual Dutch export	TULIP
Big bell's cracked note first to ring	TENOR
Bird's ostentation cut short	SWAN
Bullish, making sharp point about gold beginning to recover	TAURINE
Collapsing on this parade?	PASSINGOUT
Ethical standards for programming	CODE
Excel in adding colour to painting	PUTINTHESHADE
Found knife wound had penetrated prophet, but not entirely	ESTABLISH
Glimmering of how God got creation started?	FIRSTLIGHT
Husband, couch potato, put up with a couple of numbers in ballet	BOLSHOI
Implore page to be dropped from live talk	BESEECH
Like an aesthete to recite Shaw	ARTY
Like dogs meeting in such busy traffic?	NOSETOTAIL
Nelly regularly nearby in a group of parishes	DEANERY
Party policy here and in America not giving much scope to fellow-travellers?	PLATFORMTICKET
Poet's blasted pet has got into outhouse	SCATHED
Reader of poetry takes lead from author touring city	RECITER
Stories secret police put to a child of the Tsar	ANASTASIA
Time of royal bounty - good day to be next in line	MAUNDYTHURSDAY
Times divided about name for girl	AGNES
Trouble expected, having to meet junior counsel's fee note?	THEDEVILTOPAY
Try to contain struggle with extra authority	HEAVIER
Up to date with developments after Conservative leadership change	COUPDETAT
Vote to ration new fertiliser	POLLINATOR
Wearing large visor, easy to lift a little	EROSIVE
Wheels were not initially spinning away	ELSEWHERE
Worked hard - no time to get drunk	OILED
A stitch in time saves nine? (10,2,6,4,4)	PREVENTIONISBETTERTHANCURE
Absurdity of 'andsome man concealing meagre competence	UNTHINKABILITY
Acting a role of saint, I get rich in play	THEATRICISING
After offence, trial's rigged by the left	SINISTRAL
Aged rabbiting about so-called sport	BADGERBAITING
Archbishop's carrying staff - bishop has tip in the shape of a knot	FISHERMANSBEND
Area such as India needs journalist exercising restraint	SUBCONTINENT
At least four military commanders feature in popular novels	AGASAGAS
Boy to drink up with firm friend from York, say	ARCHIEPISCOPAL
Business - produce an effect when put in charge	PRACTICE
Casanova's mouth	KISSER
Castaway discovers bird's leg	ROBINSON
Citrus cultivated by peasant	RUSTIC
City in Maine, with storage and shipping facilities springing up	METROPOLIS
Classical conundrum for Guardian management?	QUISCUSTODIETIPSOSCUSTODES
Completely control, but not have under one's thumb? (5,5,4,6,6)	TWISTROUNDONESLITTLEFINGER
Connected with university, story about a consequence of wall's removal	REUNIFICATION
Damage or suspend arrogance	PROUDNESS
Disney film - fix copies in a state	PINOCCHIO
Displaying racial discrimination? As a father, I am able to, I confess	AFRICANISING
English are more demanding with singular New Yorkers, for example	EASTERNERS
Essential oil extracted from cottonseed	OTTO
Extinct animal in bog starts to grip archaeologist	QUAGGA
Faith two lost - does it matter?	WHATOFIT
Finish off chips with fish and fruit	SHADDOCK
Flame dies rephrased by lyricist	MASEFIELD
Food is worrying	EATS
Fresh air, they say, is an element of naturism	NUDITY
Fury exhibited when smart fellow gets shut up	ALECTO
Girl carrying on in Ring round the Moon	CORONA
Give glory to one promoted around prince	ENHALO
Hardship of soldier losing foot - the best is over	PRIVATION
Heroin taken by mouth - newspaperman is shocked	GOBSMACKED
Humus - tons used by clergy as covering for coffin	MORTCLOTH
Iberian keeps daydreaming	CASTLESINSPAIN
Idealistic campaigners spin out a reform	UTOPIANS
In period following Civil War, king disposed of by judges, initially threatening disturbance	RECONSTRUCTION
Interrogated interminably in bars	GRILLE
Jointly finance operations wife's shortly to take up	COSPONSOR
Kind of solution almost worked out by local idol	COLLOIDAL
Light term of address	SUNSHINE
Lightly knocks bread, say, against bits of butter	PITAPATS
Make a container for speakers	EARN
Men visit a site that may reveal habits of ape	IMITATIVENESS
Mistrusts the way fungi take us aback	SUSPECTS
Most emaciated relative gets out and about	GAUNTEST
My house almost entirely ruined, invaded by two heartless yahoos - and their masters	HOUYHNHNMS
Not starting conflict with fellow in a far country	ARGENTINA
Notwithstanding, head shows lack of consideration	REGARDLESSNESS
Other people have secured pleasant house in bad New York street	THEBOWERY
People who are paid to write journals after it's over	STIPENDIARIES
Pretty creatures on the turf pretend to be artful mounting horses	PERISSODACTYLS
Prisoner has to satisfy guard	CONSERVE
Put up with someone being ill-mannered	BEAR
Rodent's limb subjected to test	MARMOT
Scrooge practised interrupting to smaller extent - that's novel	LESMISERABLES
Succeeded in concealing sort of pea shooter, say	WEAPON
The actor playing a member of pious government	THEOCRAT
Threaten to go out in the Channel	GUTTER
Time to muse on first book, The Production of Monsters	TERATOGENESIS
Toast that's covered in ground-nuts, most sickly	UNHEALTHIEST
Typical of argument after daily performance	CHARACTERISTIC
Unrest one fomented in secret	ENTRENOUS
Unwillingly reported nuts misbehaving	UNDERPROTEST
Use launderette to expose family skeleton (4,4,5,5,2,6)	WASHONESDIRTYLINENINPUBLIC
Wet patch I found in undeveloped part of plane	UNDERCARRIAGE
With some aubrieta, I'd arrive, turning shed light on	IRRADIATE
Wounded bird's knocked right out	BITTEN

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