The Times - Cryptic February 14 2004 crossword clues & answers

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The Times - Cryptic Feb 14 2004

Clue	Answer
... what comes before breaking down is confusing	DISORIENTATING
Bar in front of opening	PREVENT
Breaking down is confusing what comes next ...	DISINTEGRATION
Catholic goes across unknown little path	BYROAD
Chair legs regularly encircled by cats	PRESIDE
City goddess put in a number of commandments	TEHERAN
Digital ID code	FINGERPRINT
Direct current son gets in a few detached spots	CHANNELISLANDS
Excluded drunk	OUTOFIT
Expanded new and old compound	NITRICOXIDE
Gentleman changed in ultimate twist	SQUIRM
God! Taken by surprise by progressive letters	TYR
Holy book's line accepted by a man from Asia, not European	ALKORAN
Husband a little impolite, heading off for convention	HABITUDE
In which partners are split without love	WOE
Lad with lip by cracker, possibly with merest hint of smoked kipper?	WHIPPERSNAPPER
Late opening that's official?	AUTOPSY
Like DD girl's pair up front!	TWOPENNY
Long ago, securing a thousand runs - but none off this?	YORKER
Moving step by step, I left bird eating insect	QUANTAL
One that doesn't forget carrying one in this	HOWDAH
One's dropped into open case	PATIENT
Operetta's discordant harmonies, loud and soft	HMSPINAFORE
Perhaps get techie to relieve tension	BREAKTHEICE
Prepared tongue in humidor	IDO
Shaken old comedian held up	AGITATED
Surprisingly, so-so team scored majestically	MAESTOSO
Tribesman put sash round	IBO
Alice likes one new gown when appearing first in company	ALONG
Angel backing works succeeded in neither	SPONSOR
Artist failing to portray Eastern Indian city	SURAT
As supervisor does part of poem in Old English	OVERSEE
Astonishingly quick domestic over barbecue heater (4,1,5,2,4)	LIKEAHOUSEONFIRE
Bert hits on going out to get an emerald for May, perhaps	BIRTHSTONE
Brilliant, quiet Conservative coming up to city has funny chin	PYROTECHNIC
Brought up around point, female?	BREASTFED
Cheek displayed by groups of elders, perhaps in a particular area	NECKOFTHEWOODS
Come again and let me off, please	IBEGYOURPARDON
Commanding officer keeping it up after tea in mess	CHAOTIC
Cricket stroke just short of century creates high activity	OVERDRIVE
Delighted, having finished new home in fashionable style	OVERTHEMOON
Drink I had with company in gallery, perhaps	PORTICO
Eat nothing very key after rodents turn up	STARVE
English flower festival	EASTER
European national bridge, one put over a road	SPANIARD
Expression of horror in, say, lion being trapped	CAUGHT
Fish isleman braises evenly	SEABASS
Fitted by inches, except one length needing tucking in	INBUILT
Flower, certainly not related to forget-me-not	LETHE
Getting drunk, note biriani needs to be served up	INEBRIATION
Glossy fabric one's destroyed in red dyestuff	SATIN
Hard task at table - can this be provided centrally?	HEATING
High mountainous area's temperature? I'll take a wager	TIBET
I'm a fanatic about sea's first rising - resulting in this?	TSUNAMI
It's a CIA arrangement which would include Chinese	ASIATIC
Lacking training, caused print to be distorted	UNPRACTISED
Like the best Havana cigars servant provided for the auditor	HANDMADE
Main course includes top of cream to put over steak	ENTRECOTE
Make mistake in rank for volunteer soldier	TERRIER
Not a Home Counties camp bunch of pansies?	NOSEGAY
Odd people sent greetings	CARDS
Ointment female's pinched from work	UNCTION
One who may need to extract roots in his field	MATHEMATICIAN
Parasites latched on to a girl	ALICE
Playing Elgar étude free of constraints	DEREGULATE
Pop played with mute and played fast	UPTEMPO
Pope sends out fifty from Rome to bind together	CEMENT
Prepare to unload truck but fail to give mates support	LETTHESIDEDOWN
Production: inconvenienced it's in the wrong order	OUTPUT
Quarrel about right fish	SPRAT
Quotes from Darwin and Wells I omitted	CITES
Recce planet that's fine for pressure but with changing albedo	REFLECTANCE
Reconstructed man, Igor, wandering around	ROAMING
Remote place for dealing with business mail	TRADINGPOST
Respect is crumbling for the Queen's staff	SCEPTRE
Safe announcing head of college's rule for promotion	PETERPRINCIPLE
Serious offender is saint on the inside	SINNER
Singleton taken out of pack	LONEWOLF
Sow let loose among cattle? It's easily done	NOSWEAT
Summon half-hearted author over showing such activity	ENERGETIC
Tabloid pens today's heading to amaze	STUN
Take place of commanding officer that's despicable man	OCCUR
Taking second out of spirits locker, Mark? Ta	TANTALUM
Time in tenant's lease? Year? That's nice	SUBTLETY
Tint reversal? I somehow confused salt used in photography	SILVERNITRATE
Valuable but lowly worker fools Editor badly	FOOTSOLDIER
Volcano Estonian regularly visited	ETNA
What driver has passed on the road	DRIVINGTEST
What rotor does and what it can do without changing in succession	TURNANDTURNABOUT
You find egg eventually in expected place, last to hatch?	YOUNGEST

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