The Times - Cryptic - Sunday Times Cryptic 3921 - July 15, 2001

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A lease retained by the sportsman ATHLETE
A youngster sleeps in snatches KIDNAPS
China, where there's many a crime organisation CERAMIC
City person putting money on acted right LONDONER
Favoured ministers setting the scene for the players BACKCLOTH
Finish off, do! EXECUTE
Following the shooting they expect developments CAMERAMEN
Forward has to run over and get into line READDRESS
Getting the hump about a joint of venison HAUNCH
Give voice about the underworld using explosives SHELLING
Got moving without complaint, though upset SPILLED
Honoured companion, 12dn, so not winning CHARMLESS
Just the place for a light lunch! SANDWICH
Like Venus, totally defenceless ARMLESS
Lists birds, omitting none ROSTERS
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Lively support given in oral form ALLEGRO
No longer wants quiet constitutional, to be blunt EXPLICIT
Openly lying can be quite therapeutic AIRBATH
Ordering niggard to reform GRADING
Plain about speed CHASTE
Poles accommodating a fly Arab SARACEN
Pressed on in dire distress IRONED
Purifying block used by the common man DETERGENT
Removing a top man entrapped by solicitor TAKINGOUT
The German admitting hankering for an excavator DITCHER
The unit so slow may well be cut off ISOLATE
Tom maybe takes a pick-me-up when torpid and rigid CATATONIC
Tore up class report NARRATE
Unreliable dishes - not properly adjusted DISHONEST
When rest gets disturbed, say ASSERT