The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 21603 - December 19, 2000

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Clues Answers
A claimant before the money is found PRETENDER
Ages taken on Sky sport YONKS
Arts patron gripped by opera tour-de-force ERATO
Attendants in train RETINUE
Confessed to audience, but not to oneself ALOUD
Controller in charge of the beat PACEMAKER
Dowdy woman following on behind FRUMP
Draw with lead initially - the sharp end FRONTLINE
Extremist giving up painting left university ULTRA
Finished a dish PASTA
Foreign tongue used in dog food, we hear KURDISH
Go up and down in the mountain air YODEL
Helping porter within reason RATIONALE
Its holder has to be a good sport TITLE
Not picked to win, say, being slow? UNAPT
Part of electrical system in a Roller? BREAKER
Clues Answers
Petition to include painting succeeded CANVASS
Put letters in right order for magic formula SPELL
Release a French couple UNHITCH
Riding terrain towards the interior UPCOUNTRY
Ruined ancient city in which Chopin set composition CTESIPHON
See how the land lies to shop-lift TAKESTOCK
Sent forth to meditate without a break EMITTED
Sort of vase mummy died to have CANOPIC
Sort of whisky made by a republic MALTA
Survive weird sister's entrance BEWITCH
Trips and hits the floor noisily TAPDANCES
Trouble occurring in washing machine AGITATION
Tube that goes below the surface SCHNORKEL
Unused pullover is in a state NEWJERSEY
Vigorous number to sing about king TRENCHANT
Wooden actor-knight TREEN