The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 21728 - May 15, 2001

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17 eat the employers' dinner BEANFEAST
Anaesthetist for Bedfordshire? SANDMAN
Bassets milling round old condemned building material ASBESTOS
Bawl out duke, becoming esteemed RATED
Bird dog losing its head EAGLE
Boycott chess player on a roll BLACKLIST
Curtseyed with a page-boy BOBBED
Female's gone to camouflage dubious tasty dip GUACAMOLE
Flushed athlete, one going up the pole SCARLETRUNNER
For convenience, increase the number in herd ROUNDUP
Formidable competitor, grand in a row TIGER
Good area for curry GROOM
Heartless Galileans with a peculiar insensibility ANALGESIA
Hidden gifts may be revealed here, for all the chaff BRANTUB
Immoderate appetite on liquor could get you five years LUSTRUM
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It sounds like First Lady's deterioration indicated bug EAVESDROP
Lumbar puncture that may impair your standing STABINTHEBACK
Northern ballet embodying a game NETBALC
Nothing in the old gout to make one lose heart DROOP
On his day he may be taken for a ride APRILFOOI
One who seizes child by the head KIDNAPPER
One who will not have animals, say, in a vehicle VEGAN
Pack left, after being initially dealt with TALON
Princess standing up to scold the queen REGAN
Promote leading brand? UPGRADE
She involved lover in a close shave DECLINE
Shirt tail finished with a fine cheese cloth TAFFETA
Table disintegrated under rising Parliamentarian PEMBROKE
Time caution's needed, keeping behind to gain advantage TRUMPCARD
To ensnare men she danced ENMESE