The Times - Cryptic - Sunday Times Cryptic 3986 - October 13, 2002

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Clues Answers
After this, Jack gets to the point STEEPLE
Always poetic? That is weird EERIE
Cats are, when the doctor leaves USERS
Cut tropical harvest - using money for power-tool PLUTOCRATIC
Cutting short their harbour operations? DOCKERS
Do well with fish, getting about ninety EXCEL
Employed when selling a length, in order to stop short cuts? COUNTERMEASURE
First mate appears, as always, right away EVE
Heading the mission that's promoting cessation INTER
In explosive situation have a drink. It's a gift TALENT
Is bossy and comes from Maidstone DOMINATES
Is nude, having cast them off? UNDIES
Leaving hospital can die, abandoned, at a home overseas HACIENDA
Muslim leader has a cheek, going into church CALIPH
Nice cream bun I dropped - confounded nuisance! ENCUMBRANCE
Clues Answers
No more than nine, it appears, going to church - it can't be true! PRETENCE
No stamp? Turn to him POSTMAN
Of one mind about the old folk going out AGREED
Old play on words for example, is back. Cut it out! EXPUNGE
Old-time engineers unprepared EXTEMPORE
One spin doctor I had found lacking taste INSIPID
Perhaps is repairing road, with irritation STITCHING
Put forward I'd secured top job PRESIDENT
Sails about to flap? There's not a breath of wind AIRLESS
Shut in small room, many stole out, newsman found CLOSETED
So pure? He isn't really! POSEUR
Take off wages - internal measure PARODY
The last good book on cryptic clues is worth digesting ESCULENT
Unenterprising line of progress RUT
Walk within the law CONSTITUTIONAL