The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 22624 - March 29, 2004

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A bar put back on quarter deck ADORN
A relation in retirement BEDTIMESTORY
Ancient ring many study OLDEN
Any word of topless club and topless fling? UTTERANCE
As in pre-stage make-up? GREASEPAINTS
Boxing ring takes an age to erect ARENA
Castigate stupid person holding one back DENOUNCE
Children grab last of the dice CUBES
China's sovereign race CROWNDERBY
City road ANCHORAGE
Desert? Not a lot of water DROP
Feeling for the right gear DRESSSENSE
Girl's first for Easter present HERE
It could help chap shoot par, perhaps APPROACHSHOT
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It produces high sound if turned up HIFI
Left for dead, for example EUPHEMISM
Managed to get detectives' rank RANCID
Operatic heroine that is at heart betrayed ISOLDE
Paris summit conference TETEATETE
Produces a large stake and wins a fortune MAKESAPILE
Promise non-U field event records COMPACTDISCS
Relaxation, say, about a moral slip EASING
Remove it as ordered, for extra pay OVERTIME
Sincere admirer's love to be returned? Wait outside BONAFIDE
Stand for lower classes rejecting school DENOTE
Stock golf-clubs needed for the first course SOUPSPOONS
Strange destiny, heading East North-East TYNESIDE
You want to be in it NEED