The Times - Cryptic - Sunday Times Cryptic 4022 - June 22, 2003

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Adverse reaction to brief experience of the underworld DISTASTE
Call for the final delivery LASTPOST
Can force to contain drug abuse be on the march? TRUDGING
Carry on, using former nurse EXTEND
Choice foreign national upheld SUPERB
Cork? Don't retire here STOPUP
Defeated, arrived by air OVERCAME
Drawn-out epic that is really pitiful PATHETIC
Drill to force open, indeed? PRACTISE
Drinks and cheese being brought around BRANDIES
Emotion cunningly concealed by companion, with a smile? CHAGRIN
First mate right, as always EVER
Form of light entertainment in which some bright sparks shone PYROTECHNICS
In favour of a drink - shrub! PROTEA
In tax, it suggests thoughtlessness LEVITY
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Ken let nice Nigel off INTELLIGENCE
Make fun of the second to finish SENDUP
Military unit, on capturing rebel leader shows restraint LEGIRON
Not quite jiggery but allied to pokery? PIGGERY
Peevish, finding cigarette end in gravy that's lumpy VINEGARY
Play the banjo to favourite, but promiscuous, lady STRUMPET
Sailor wearing a president's cap TARBUSH
Salt offered to the Italian god ALKALI
Secret vote bringing tax rebate to graduate BALLOT
Socially acceptable in top quarters to sport one? TOUPEE
Southern refuge - an island SARK
Swine, it's said, abandoning river to web-footed creatures OTTERS
Thus be flushed but no longer excited SOBERED
Waves through formal proposals MOTIONS
Will, for example, partly cut housing employees? DOCUMENT