The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 21639 - January 31, 2001

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- it's supposed to be deafening EARPLUG
- taking an awful lot of interest in this? USURY
A bit of guts shown by the Spanish officer COLONEL
A little more sage improving taste? WISER
A very quiet horse brought round - a gem SAPPHIRE
After the London flop, this may cover aggressive activity SMOKEBOMB
Am I nearly on track for speculative investments? RACEGOER
Blonde, reading poetry, slipping in boggy area FLAXEN
Bug with which first woman's reported to go down - EAVESDROP
Chap overturning could possibly cause this DISMAY
County flags WILTS
Dancers perhaps performing to pure rock - TROUPE
Dogsbody, in turn, sent up arbitrator GOFER
Fast-track promotion? GRANDPRIX
Flaunting his plaid - about right for such status? LAIRDSHIP
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Foreign C-in-C portrayed as pig in tabloid SHOGUN
I'll join you in Paris shortly, to get in taxi back to camp BIVOUAC
In the Fifties, a novel way to travel ONTHEROAD
It could generate extremes of paranoia, pulling drivers up PANDACAR
Keep quiet, or get a bit higher on this? TIPTOE
Piano accompaniment for two girls, or one? JOANNA
Reddish, maybe a bit faded RUSTY
Route 22 barred, for pedestrians' safety ZEBRACROSSING
Seriously broke, put out by horse that's beaten THRASHED
Standard target for rivals in 12 CHEQUEREDFLAG
Surpass characters' limits - another gem TOPAZ
They may be characterised as sliding GLISSANDI
Tom's about to expose what goes on in club CABARET
Type of vice rings cop busted, making a meal of it? POPCORN
Wicked king's imbibed enough to get drunk SKINFUL