The Times - Cryptic - Times Saturday 22545 - December 27, 2003

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A university finally used it to check out books AUDIT
Above all, it's a key DOMINANT
Again eating fungus to build up muscle BICEPS
America protecting ally in NATO, for example ACRONYM
Asian money to exchange RIALTO
Besotted admirer using unnatural language thereafter IDOLATER
Bourgeois husband tucked into fast food BURGHER
Chieftain turned up inside safe boundary PERIMETER
Commonwealth, or part of it AUSTRALIA
Company went first and moved to protect king CASTLED
Composer whose arranged pieces come in handy HAYDN
Criminal helping police, both now and earlier INFORMER
Extending production of pork pies LYING
Final outcome of rule tends to be changed ENDRESULT
Fool showing bare skin, with nothing on BUFFOON
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Informal business in island, a part of the Balearics IBIZA
Manufactured article for sale, as a result PRODUCT
Officer given money and the means to collect it BRASSHAT
On paper, American city is warm, naturally SUNNY
One expected to make new appearances in theatre PLASTICSURGEON
One who orders copy (some provided it originally) EDITOR
Organiser, out East, redeployed troops in base GARRISON
Paddy runs over frozen expanse RICEFIELD
Pursuers of robbers, say, in small wood COPSE
Put down, for instance, in a cot ABASED
Re-enlist after disorder in part of Ireland LEINSTER
Roman officer in part of basilica TRIBUNE
Sausages from Greek island SALAMIS
The insignificant record-holder from Holloway DIARYOFANOBODY
Why, we hear, trough spoiled dairy product YOGHURT