The Times - Cryptic January 22 2005 crossword clues & answers

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The Times - Cryptic Jan 22 2005

Clue	Answer
American swimmer's low fins switching height	MOONFISH
An orderly order?	APPLEPIE
As legend would have it, models lick floor	FOLKLORIC
As some boats flew, seconds lost	OARED
Bishop requiring one, milliner's heading off, turning up with this?	BIRETTA
Clergyman curtailed side	RECTO
Criminal framing wife in fix gets bird	LAPWING
Destination for victims of cabinet reshuffle?	LABOUREXCHANGE
In recent times, rent raised to cut deposit	LATELY
It could be rude!	FOURLETTERWORD
Leaves having no function inside trunk?	APPENDIX
Lens takes little animal from big, in toto	TELEPHOTO
Literary taste but about right	EXCERPT
Male with weak back needs injection of boron to preserve body	EMBALM
Maybe we hear palm trees are alongside this tree	BEECH
Most mean to remove opener from contest in cricket match	TIGHTEST
Once mistaken about island, personality theorist left area with bleak outlook	CONCRETEJUNGLE
One done in spring	APRILFOOL
Payment offering little money - is none unexpected?	PENSION
Quite a serious problem's contained	TEASER
Return of sailor I love figures in relationship	RATIO
Suggestion of whip in party game?	FOLLOWMYLEADER
The spirit of Nebuchadnezzar?	BOTTLE
Thin character hugged by fat, rich Scotsman	LAIRD
Thousand trapped by ludicrous price in trouble, subject to process	WORKPIECE
Top university job filled by combination of results	UPPERMOST
Tragic design, and disastrous	SADDENING
Yank no good after exile in African languages	BANTU
As in races, running	ARSENIC
Base to which I belong is moving	IGNOBLE
Be guilty of endless falsification - get imprisonment	COMMITTAL
Bird depicted by poet	HOMER
Brown book I dropped in power station	DUNGENESS
Cancel outer bits of engagement ring	ANNULET
Catch pulled back right through window	ENTRAP
Cheat and send anything up	TWOTIME
Church where I left man in charge	MINSTER
Cleaners saw more when working	WASHERWOMEN
Close, passing, with no points	HANDINGLOVE
Disease affecting farmyard animals is astonishing	STAGGERS
Dragon very unusually intervening between opponents	WYVERN
Evocative novel about cars	REMINISCENT
Form of transport taking girls round meadows	GALLEASS
Further story about gardens is to follow	LIKEWISE
George encounters sound of earth science	GEOLOGICAL
Go round end of the Wash	LEAVE
Grating seriously trapped inexperienced driver	GRAVELLY
I am put back in box by dispenser	CHEMIST
I fix back section of shoe - it's part of gear	IDLEWHEEL
I had shown the way? That's not worked	IDLED
I start to grow out of robberies	MUGGINS
In bank, position is going to Edward, according to general belief	REPUTEDLY
Instigate removal of marrow from bone	STIRUP
Island offering views to look at endlessly	ANGLESEY
Little house hiding front of palace in Rome	HOLYSEE
Lived a short time after turning blue	DWELT
Make things go smoothly, if a little corruptly	GREASETHEWHEELS
Match criminal with criminal record	CONFORM
Merrymaking corporal bearing one chevron	CARNIVAL
Messages from me to doctor and golf club	MEMORANDA
Minor cut	SLIGHT
Mix this with another one and it would still be ridiculous	LUDICROUS
Monks disconcerted no end to be covered by gun	BRETHREN
Most enthusiastic when speaking of vital retreat	KEENEST
Organ used in school, look	SEARCH
Parting gesture - from Midas?	GOLDENHANDSHAKE
Peppercorns may be suffering an unpleasant experience	GOINGTHROUGHTHEMILL
Person of influence, tough on anything oppressive	HEAVYWEIGHT
Poker rabbit?	JABBER
Politicians can dally, covering up disgraceful behaviour	SCANDAL
Publish musical composition	AIR
Questions in verse - wit is in order	INTERVIEWS
Reading edited article	RECITAL
Retired journalist quickly covering up singular romp	ESCAPADE
Revealing the orientation of excursion	OUTING
Revealing university's narrow escape	UNEARTHING
Runs out of disrupted chapel service in Columbia, perhaps	SPACEVEHICLE
Salad lover loosens up in the country	ELSALVADOR
See a deer scarper	VAMOOSE
Some drew a derrick, or crane, perhaps	WADER
Speed - its dropped in the sticks	CELERY
This is killing, responsible for bloke's hilarity	MANSLAUGHTER
Treats fit for a king - and 41s leaders	REGALES
Unexpectedly, we came using calming sounds	NEWAGEMUSIC
Use an extractor fan to remove any misunderstandings	CLEARTHEAIR
Warning light forever written about	AMBER
Weather turned disastrously - game became a thing of the past	WATERUNDERTHEBRIDGE
Where to see choir opening with a Latin number	CHANCEL
With higher ranked card capturing one heart, win	TRIUMPH
Worry about initially feeding stranded visitor	EAT

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