The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 22518 - November 25, 2003

Tired of your current crossword puzzle? Try solving our daily crossword puzzles. GO TO DAILY PUZZLES!
Clues Answers
A loyal companion Bill dislikes intensely ACHATES
Assemble to welcome daughter of outside sponsor GODFATHER
Batsman's device for getting at the drink OPENER
Changes course, duty being mentioned TACKS
Check passage about union leader AUDIT
Country's opera separately losing artist and volunteers LATVIA
Crossbred hunter moving suddenly and unsteadily? LURCHER
Curry originally eaten in valley COMBE
Doctrine mother associated with 21, for example DOGMA
Embarrassed initially when knighthood is included in prize AWKWARD
English composer given a German dairy cow HOLSTEIN
Finance cashier provided for boomerang BACKFIRE
Get friends down for such a lavish meal? SLAPUP
Girl with something to eat VIAND
Given evidence soundly on criminal, reach verdict? CONCLUDE
Clues Answers
Head of house with whom poor Brutus was at war? HIMSELF
Improperly turned out without formal education UNTUTORED
In tree, at top, a sort of dome CUPOLA
Lawgiver abandons second son, capturing old deer MOOSE
Leading otologist's restrained manifestation of sorrow TEARDROP
Like certain recordings some consider as a blessing ERASABLE
Not much popular music in this state's capital? ARKANSAS
Physicist is second to show aggressive masculinity MACHISMO
Position no good for a locum STANDIN
Possibly the Duke of York's scene of operations THEATRE
Seek fame at last, introducing a new dance COURANTE
Shorten hanging drapery, altering the end CURTAIL
Speak bluntly regarding sprig supplied by the trendy? SHOOTFROMTHEHIP
T S Eliot's curious understatement LITOTES
Take a retrograde step, restoring the taximeter PUTTHECLOCKBACK