The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 22407 - July 18, 2003

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About to be shot, perhaps? That's puzzling POSING
Bears ridicule POOHPOOH
Book the former students preserve is tragic novel JUDETHEOBSCURE
Bothering person over nothing - what sauce! PESTO
Business deal as reason for director to demand cut? TAKEOVER
Cow not straying into marshland FRIGHTEN
Create pollution in a gorge DEFILE
Fleet, for example, taking alternative to deep blue sea OLDNICK
From what we hear, bargain so long GOODBYE
Gambler, before start of race, having lost less BETTEROFF
He lacks certain knowledge about the craft he studies UFOLOGIST
Henry combined with the author to better advantage - or the opposite HANDICAP
Like each part of 18, anticipating fall in prices BEARISH
Male head set up term of French, it's appropriate to say BONMOT
Matter revealed in report on novel SHEBANG
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Meat is in new oven, cooked VENISON
Mount was beaten with stick TABOR
Notes having exposed members DEBAGGED
Penetrate the heart of America without leader ENTER
Poet mostly indistinguishable from Keats? Doesn't sound like it YEATS
Side-effects of quarrel, in a word FALLOUT
Small volume about drink, work of the highest quality CLASSIC
Solver of riddle I posed and you pronounced silly OEDIPUS
Speaking in tongues? Minimally so BILINGUAL
The oldest of the members in party have desires DOYEN
They're located in cockpit as source of power MAINS
Type of hound giving tongue AFGHAN
US airman repositioned behind girl, one I abandoned LINDBERGH
Where goods may be displayed, in disarray ALLOVERTHESHOP
Work that's bound to be inflexible HARDBACK