The Times - Cryptic May 30 2005 crossword clues & answers

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The Times - Cryptic May 30 2005

Clue	Answer
About a pound given for Scotsman's cloth	PLAID
Amadeus, a name to conjure with excessively	ADNAUSEAM
Conflict afoot about maiden race preparation	WARMUP
Denounce violence, say, shown by sport	FORSWEAR
Deprived of citizenship? That's taken for granted	UNSTATED
Do a bunk with dodgy paper's aid	DISAPPEAR
Extremes such a one can bear but sadly not alter	TOLERANT
Feminine charm affected in social gathering	FUNCTION
From bore, anxious last couple turning	EAGRE
Heavy stone, foul-smelling underneath	STOLID
Infernal ruler's wartime acronym	PLUTO
Lead taken off dog - it's well below par	EAGLE
Mansion put together with cement in beauty spot	COURTPLASTER
Maps, great heaps - that's the African system	ATLASMOUNTAINS
Mentally slow girl needs physical training	UNAPT
Novel dash in paper	NEWSPRINT
Obvious fool, he's a sort of detective	PLAINCLOTHES
Obviously responsible, as a trapeze artist may be	CAUGHTINTHEACT
One cutting off publicity about mystic message	PRUNER
Permit to indulge oneself after losing first wife	ALLOW
Peter's country mansion, one of a great majority	SAFESEAT
Refuse a stretcher	LITTER
Search on a junk slows it down	SEAANCHOR
Send message in box to foreign count, we hear	TELEGRAPH
Spinner can turn it both ways	ROTOR
Storm a natural time for spider to appear	TARANTULA
Tearaway in charge of security?	SHREDDER
To impress, put one's foot down hard	STAMP
A defective boat going west around a country	GUATEMALA
About to set off, journey there and back	ROUNDTRIP
Banker showing a bit of leg welcomed in by firm in recession	THAMES
Bird that may get on your back?	HARRIER
Canadian feature meandering in clean waters	SAINTLAWRENCE
Cigarette company to go up in smoke, European admitted	COFFINNAIL
Collect in which God is English	RAISE
Deceiver to test out high street official	STOREDETECTIVE
Deviate and cross over the threshold	DOORWAY
Drink driver's lost - see swerve	SCREW
Drink driver?	ONEFORTHEROAD
Drink made sharp, added tonic perhaps	SIPHONED
Drug injected into charming relative	NIECE
Figures that reader put in wrong order	TETRAHEDRA
Fish sensed as fishy?	SMELT
Fool one by mistake imprisoned - a political insurgent	GUERRILLA
Given piece of cake, is this enough to blow out candles?	BREEZE
Go and propose rotating platform	TURNTABLE
Good little promises?	PIOUS
Hard cutting into vessel in river, though effective	TRENCHANT
Hard to give doctor passport, perhaps	RIGID
Having turned over spades, wet earth carried out there!	DIDDUMS
I'm going to find a solid cast elite	ADIEU
In translation who, given study, demands peace?	QUIETUDE
It's cold on the Queen Elizabeth inside ship detailed with gold	REFRIGERATOR
Killing joke's result in shop	SLAUGHTERING
Message I act out in part of religious service	COMMUNICATION
Might sewer network be off?	UNDERWAY
Muslim territories finding friend in Amis novel	IMAMATES
No alarm bell initially activated, which is very strange	ABNORMAL
Non-Eastern curse so foul, spreading like the king's evil	SCROFULOUS
Nothing repeated like eggs!	OVOID
One declares coal must be mixed into paint	PROCLAIMER
One enjoying holiday resort burns with heat	SUNBATHER
One in nick, or entering her application for fringe benefits?	HAIRRESTORER
One point I bagged, being a simpleton	IDIOT
Pawnbroker withholds order owing to label being out of place	UNCOMFORTABLE
Perhaps daily newspaper one's thrown out	OFTEN
Plate of ham?	TROTTER
PM isn't interrupted by chum in quango, perhaps	ACRONYM
Precious metal required in case needed by a temple	PAGODA
Property contract to secure account is on credit, mostly	CHARACTERISTIC
Rearing horse run over	RECAP
Religious title which is standard, topped in Othello	MONSIGNOR
Reserve hurt by county's opener	CACHE
Right exercises preserved by moral minister	CLERGYMAN
Roadside dentist's chair?	FILLINGSTATION
Salesmen butter up then seek short term manoeuvres	MARKETEERS
Sentence resembling a joke we heard?	PUNISH
Set in action, though not yet!	DELAYED
Sort of hazard in the post?	OCCUPATIONAL
Sound of disapproval at eighteenth letter in dictionary being taught	TUTORED
Soundly test heart, for example - that may give a guarantee	CHEQUECARD
South Bank is remote	SLENDER
Space where I'd taken up position	DISTANCE
Spiritual among those unmentioned, including at thirty six across	ETHEREAL
Those wanted are dead? It's uncertain	DESIDERATA
Traitor, female, breaks cover at funeral, which is an embarrassment	PRATFALL
Virtually mad old person claims local state precariously run	BANANAREPUBLIC
Was out of one's depth having sunk touring lake	FLOUNDERED

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