The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 21657 - February 21, 2001

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Cricket guide - one examining details of flight, spin, etc TESTPILOT
Distemper flat needed put on with difficulty HARDPAD
Distinct community in French grotto, about fifty ENCLAVE
Element thin on the ground? RAREEERRO
Footplate, perhaps, provided elation when in motion TOENAIL
Go out dressed in gold for so long ADIES
Hardy characters lived there WESSEX
Has responsibility for carriages showing symbols of military rank SHOULDERSTRAPS
His responsibility still remains to be seen CURATOR
In sale, men found fashionable hard-wearing coats ENAMELS
It goes up on the tenth TITHE
Leather finally selected for backing novel KIDNAPPED
Live outside university for the rest RESIDUE
Money one might charge in Africa RHINO
New nurse making marks on old tablets RUNES
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Obliquely referring to botanic gardens ASKEW
Person in Greece, a hopeless case GONER
Quartet play this commission by English composer CONTRACTBRIDGE
Revealing certain statistics that may have been inflated? PAGETHREE
Savoury relish - a flavouring using shortening? ASPIC
See such a bishop has given old name TITULAE
Shop successfully, given some leverage PURCHASE
Sort of roll, A-E etc? ELECTORAL
Spring socially acceptable for expression of praise WELLDONE
Stock control impossible during such rushes STAMPEDES
Stress feature of dialect? ACCENT
Team up? AIRCREA
To eat sparingly makes sense TASTEWAREHOUSEE
Uses old or new type of method to defeat sniffer-dogs ODOURLESS