The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 22058 - June 5, 2002

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After short time, a politician can be threatening MINATORY
As it goes up the banks may be threatened WATERLEVEL
Asteroids, pal, could bring disaster on cosmic scale PARADISELOST
Attacked funding being received by Communist RAIDED
Bird nibbled a morsel TITBIT
Bungle made by teacher detaining boy over dress? MALADMINISTER
Customers may have been stung when they bought it ANTIHISTAMINE
Dastardly types in lists HEELS
Elegant groom - the ultimate for matrimony DRESSY
Fib I laugh about - incomplete excuse ALIBI
Final message after school game - that's the spirit! SCHNAPPS
Hunch during university lesson INTUITION
Illegitimate children? A red herring SIDEISSUE
Junk food TRIPE
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Language we don't often hear - it turns up just the same MALAYALAM
Maiden is gloomy about bloke's last vile wrongdoing MISDEMEANOUR
Major road blocked by hostile guns ARTILLERY
Monies having to be sent back as enclosure? REBATES
Name bird, and make observation about it NOMINATE
Northern town pub getting over dispute BARROW
Not being fair with a girl? BRUNETTE
Occasion not nice it turned out NONCE
One giving foundation to 'English' BEDE
Paper putting out leader about accommodation SEMI
Room framed by the French type of tracery LATTICE
Suspenders not seen in Britain since the sixties? HANGMEN
University male gets married - none the worse for it? UNIMPAIRED
Wide of the mark in performance, no longer retained INEXACT