The Times - Cryptic - Sunday Times Cryptic 3972 - July 7, 2002

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A lot may be meant by the satisfactory transaction GOODDEAL
Beginning of growth - more by accident? EMBRYO
Biscuits supplied in small numbers PETITFOURS
Call in the president - it leads to a solution ENTITLE
Cryptaesthesia, in brief, you begin to perceive ESPY
Expressing doubts about the saint HESITANT
Fast Rolls-Royce due for overhaul. But he'll take you for a ride FRAUDSTER
Fit to take over APPROPRIATE
Get help, we hear, with the answer - it's conducive to sobriety LEMONADE
Hard to place SET
I'm not poor, thanks to upgrading PROMOTION
Jack requiring emulsion for discharge ABSOLUTION
Jump - though not to a conclusion START
Love for fine art - not quite an admirable quality VIRTU
Man of property, three quarters in gold OWNER
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Mercenary to work at Billingsgate, it's said SELFISH
One is lucky to make a thousand at the race-course MASCOT
Parade-ground language to avoid SHUN
Payments to be made by local communities SETTLEMENTS
Prison isle from which only the fit return ELBA
Promotion to first team - don't opt for women! PREFERMENT
Refined tenor first, then a flute's playing TASTEFUL
Running away from work, in principle ELOPEMENT
Spotted deer; a number returning AXIS
Strain from place below causing a blow-up? DISTENSION
There's nothing vague about universal abhorrence ODIUM
Transplanted maple here for short term gain EPHEMERAL
Unprincipled to spread alarm about nothing AMORAL
Veer wildly from the point and wait outside SWERVE
You get nothing in changing a pound NIL