The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 21735 - May 23, 2001

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Aggressive female parrot AMAZON
Apart from edges, is now linen, over which it's always white SNOWLINE
Arrangement of bars on Fourth of July - not open CAGEY
As a rule, it's not dependent on manpower MATRIARCHY
Audibly disapprove of monarch's strict regulations BOOK
Blow up it as ordered, needing 14 inflated BOMBASTIC
Books left one bitter, twisted LIBRETTI
Contract arrived at by players rather than clubs, for example NOTRUMP
Exotic type of garland - article mostly found in a certain port LEITH
Fellow on island freed by a castaway, finally MANFRIDAY
Force opponents at bridge repeatedly to produce king RAMESES
How to score extremely high ALTISSIMO
It allows us to make an entrance after the opening number COMBINATIONLOCK
Last guy STAY
Leaves immediately when it's time to retire LIGHTSOUT
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Name a fungus that's set back nut-tree PECAN
Name schoolboy embracing wife of a famous mathematician NEWTONIAN
Old-fashioned second eleven STEAM
One state's courts subsuming fifty others AUSTRIA
One's required to get some food from person who frees prisoners CANOPENER
Police sergeant the equal of gunman? LEWIS
Religious leader and scholar needing his hair restyled MAHARISHI
Right to escape all military coups in new state? POLITICALASYLUM
Score in rugby game, not in test TRYOUT
Seas are concealed by 'aze, we hear, in African port ACCRA
Second highest position, say SPEAK
Singularly versatile player ONEMANBAND
They limit goals in a backward area THESTICKS
Unknown river in renamed African area ZAIRE
Yellow material sometimes found in flowers SULPHUR